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Do community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage continue to play a role in the conjugate vaccine era?
Hsu, K K; Rifas-Shiman, S L; Shea, K M; Kleinman, K P; Lee, G M; Lakoma, M; Pelton, S I; Finkelstein, J A; Huang, S S.
Afiliação
  • Hsu KK; Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Rifas-Shiman SL; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Shea KM; Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Kleinman KP; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Lee GM; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Lakoma M; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Pelton SI; Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Finkelstein JA; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Huang SS; Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Epidemiol Infect ; 142(2): 379-87, 2014 Feb.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23731707
This paper examined whether previously identified community-level factors (high proportion of crowded households and/or persons below the poverty level) remained associated with childhood pneumococcal carriage in the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) era. Using logistic regression, individual factors were used to develop base models to which community-level factors were added to evaluate impact on pneumococcal carriage within two paediatric study cohorts from Massachusetts (urban Boston, outside Boston). Six years after introduction of universal childhood PCV7 vaccination, we found no consistent evidence that census tract characteristics (e.g. population size and density, age and race distribution, percent participating in group childcare, parental education, percent lacking in-unit plumbing, poverty, and community stability) affected odds of pneumococcal carriage when added to individual predictors (e.g. younger age, current respiratory tract infections, and attendance in group childcare). How community-level factors influence pneumococcal carriage continues to change in the era of increasing immunization coverage.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Infecções Pneumocócicas / Portador Sadio / Vacinas Pneumocócicas Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2014 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Infecções Pneumocócicas / Portador Sadio / Vacinas Pneumocócicas Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2014 Tipo de documento: Article