Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccination - a Randomized Study in Young Otitis-prone Children

Authors
Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2003
Acute otitis media (AOM) is a common childhood disease, which becomes recurrent in 15-20% of the cases. Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the leading causative agents, and a small reduction in the number of AOM episodes has been noted in unselected child cohorts after vaccination with conjugate heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine. This study was performed in order to investigate whether vaccination could reduce the number of AOM episodes in very young, otitis-prone children.
Epistemonikos ID: 9ec30fb0b28164be6a082d9d49e1a091a22d39e7
First added on: May 06, 2024