2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.06.031
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Control of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5 epidemic of severe pneumonia among young army recruits by mass antibiotic treatment and vaccination

Abstract: During an outbreak of severe pneumonia among new army recruits, an epidemiological investigation combined with repeated nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal cultures from sick and healthy contacts subjects was conducted. Fifteen pneumonia cases and 19 influenza-like illness cases occurred among 596 recruits over a 4-week period in December 2005. Pneumonia attack rates reached up to 5.5%. A single pneumococcus serotype 5 clone was isolated from blood or sputum cultures in 4 patients and 30/124 (24.1%) contacts. Immuniz… Show more

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“…Serotypes with higher invasive indices can cause endemic disease, for example in the African meningitis belt [28][29][30], as well as localized outbreaks [31][32][33]. We identified only nine total pneumococci with serotypes associated with a higher invasiveness index (three at the beginning of the Hajj and six at the end).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Serotypes with higher invasive indices can cause endemic disease, for example in the African meningitis belt [28][29][30], as well as localized outbreaks [31][32][33]. We identified only nine total pneumococci with serotypes associated with a higher invasiveness index (three at the beginning of the Hajj and six at the end).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two studies from Canada report that outbreaks were caused by a single clone (ST289) with a similar antimicrobial susceptibility pattern (i.e., susceptible to all antimicrobials and intermediate resistant to co-trimoxazole) (9,14). Another Ser5 epidemic of severe pneumonia occurred in Israel in 2005 among army recruits, in which all isolates had the same PFGE pattern and sequence type (ST289) (11).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ser5 pneumococci have been associated with chains of infection, such as those described in Israel (11), the United Kingdom (12), and Canada (9,13,14). Outbreaks of pneumococcal infections have been documented and occur typically in closed communities within institutions, and they tend to be caused by a limited number of pneumococcal serotypes.…”
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“…В 2005 г. опубликованы данные о возникновении вспышки пневмококковой пневмонии в Израильской армии [29]. Пневмония была диагностирована у 15 воен-нослужащих из 596.…”
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