Before the vaccine, pneumococcal infections caused more than ... Antibiotics such as penicillin can kill them, but up to 30% of the strains are resistant to antibiotics. Pneumococcal bacteria ...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Government of Argentina, Pfizer, and the pharmaceutical company Sinergium ...

Vaxcyte's new pneumococcal vaccine may only have phase 1/2 results behind it, but analysts are already predicting it could be a major competitor to rival shots from Pfizer and MSD. Just-reported ...

Those eight strains account for more than 30% of the disease burden caused by S pneumoniae, said the drugmaker. Prior to COVID-19, pneumococcal vaccines were the largest vaccine market worldwide ...

As influenza mutates rapidly, the most common strains change each flu season, and a new vaccine is required every ... and even fungi that accounted for 41,108 deaths in the United States in 2023. The ...

Furthermore, the conjugate vaccines only provide modest ... assay uses flow cytometry to serotype the strains using monoclonal antibodies and pneumococcal polysaccharides covalently linked to ...

Due to rising antibiotic resistance, pneumococcal infections are becoming increasingly difficult to treat with antibacterial agents. A vaccine is the best strategy to prevent pneumococcal ...

Pneumococcal vaccines can prevent common bacterial infections from Streptococcus pneumoniae. There are two types of pneumonia vaccines available to prevent specific strains of this bacteria.

At nearly 117,000 pre-travel health consultations over 10 years at 31 US sites, 68% of eligible travelers weren't offered the pneumococcal vaccine and 15% weren't offered the flu vaccine—even if their ...

PCV21 is the first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine candidate with more than 20 serotypes to enter a Phase III clinical trial in infants and toddlers. Sanofi and SK Bioscience announced that they have ...

and 3 (12.8%), both of which are targeted by the PCV13 vaccine, which covers 13 pneumococcal strains. The study authors note that the 21% prevalence of pneumococcal carriage observed in the study was ...