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In addition to increasing vaccine coverage in older adults, they need to monitor the changing epidemiology of pneumococcal serotypes causing invasive disease. [134] In the face of these changes ...

has licensed three pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV15, PCV20, and PCV21) and one pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) for protection against pneumococcal disease. A serotype is a ...

Pneumococcal vaccine polyvalent ... In both studies, patients received either meningococcal polysaccharide serogroup A or placebo. The 6- and 12-valent vaccines achieved a protective efficacy ...

pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV, the type of vaccine used for childhood vaccination) pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV, the type of vaccine usually used for adult vaccination). The BHIVA ...

Participants were randomized to receive a single dose of either one of three lots of CAPVAXIVE or PPSV23 (pneumococcal 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine). Results from the study include ...

The development by Wyeth of the vaccine Prevnar, as well as being a commercial success, was also a technological triumph. Conceptually, the approach was not new; pneumococcal polysaccharide ...