pneumococcal

How To Use pneumococcal In A Sentence

• For example, one of the complications of the flu is something called pneumococcal disease, it's a super infection and we have a pneumococcal vaccine that we recommend for certain people, such as all persons 65 and over, those who have chronic conditions such as chronic lung disease and heart disease an for young children. CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2005
• Our voice can encourage a fragile senior to get a flu shot or pneumococcal vaccine.
• The sensitivity according to the causative organism ranges from 90 percent in pneumococcal or staphylococcal meningitis to less than 50 percent in Listeria meningitis.
• Alternate methods of diagnosing pneumococcal disease are based on the detection of bacterial antigens in body fluids.
• Pneumonia, a lung ailment signaled by fever, chest pain, cough and chills, is the most common of infections known as pneumococcal disease. Craig Daily Press stories
• But these same kind of bacteria, pneumococcal bacteria, also help cause ear infections, or otitis media.
• In such outbreaks, pneumococcal infections have included sepsis, meningitis, purulent conjunctivitis, recurrent otitis media and sinusitis.
• The new pneumococcal vaccine may help prevent ear infections caused by certain bacteria.
• One part of the schedule lists immunizations indicated by age, particularly influenza, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
• The other vaccine, called the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine PPSV; Pneumovax, is recommended for adults older than 65 and anyone between the ages of 2 and 64 with chronic heart, lung, or liver disease, alcoholism, or impaired immunity. Flu vaccine FAQs: Pneumonia vaccine can help prevent flu complications