The burden of pneumococcal disease among Latin American and Caribbean children: review of the evidence La carga de enfermedad neumocócica en niños de América Latina y el Caribe: revisión de la información científica

• Main Authors: Maria Teresa Valenzuela, Rosalyn O'Loughlin, Fernando De La Hoz, Elizabeth Gomez, Dagna Constenla, Anushua Sinha, Juan Esteban Valencia, Brendan Flannery, Ciro A. De Quadros
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Streptococcus pneumoniae; vacunas neumocócicas; revisión; América Latina; región del Caribe; pneumococcal vaccines; review literature; Latin America and the Caribbean; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Meier
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/0dc21ac7c6ef4d1cb533be78a51f7b44

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a comprehensive review of data on pneumococcal disease incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean and project the annual number of pneumococcal disease episodes and deaths among children < 5 years of age in the region. METHODS: We carried out a systematic review (1990 to 2...