Whilst vaccination uptake was adequate among 'every year' patients, interventions are needed to improve pneumococcal vaccination for all older Australians.doi:10.1080/21645515.2019.1682844Oliver FrankCarla De Oliveira BernardoDavid Alejandro González-Chica...
The Impact of Pneumococcal Vaccination on Bacterial and Viral Pneumonia in Western Australian Children: Record Linkage Cohort Study of 469589 Births, 1996... Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) was included in Australia's National Immunisation Program for all children from 2005. We assessed the impact...
Infant PCV13 vaccination with high population-level uptake rates has led to substantial reductions in vaccine-type IPD in the first 7 years across all age groups following introduction in countries where the vaccine was introduced (i.e., both direct and indirect protection was observed). Conversely...
Individuals entered the model either vaccinated or not vaccinated, depending upon their ages and vaccination uptake. Individuals were followed over the remainder of their lifetime, in which they were at risk for contracting IPD, PNE, or AOM based on their vaccination status. If individuals contracte...
Whilst vaccination uptake was adequate among 'every year' patients, interventions are needed to improve pneumococcal vaccination for all older Australians.doi:10.1080/21645515.2019.1682844Oliver FrankCarla De Oliveira BernardoDavid Alejandro González-Chica...
Indigenous Australians experience one of the highest rates of pneumococcal disease globally. In the Northern Territory of Australia, a unique government-funded vaccination schedule for Indigenous Australian adults comprising multiple lifetime doses of the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine is currently ...
BCG has been used in newborn vaccination against tuberculosis for over a hundred years, displaying high safety; it is one of the few vaccines that can induce protective immunity in neonate children. BCG has shown the induction of long-lasting immunity in humans, and the recombinant BCG strategy...