5/04/2008

The persons who should be vaccinated pneumococcal vaccine?

The persons who should be vaccinated pneumococcal vaccine

First, pneumococcal infection from their carrier, when the lower resistance, pneumococcal pneumonia caused downward respiratory violations;

The second is from the people or patients infected by infection, pneumonia. Everyone has the chance of such pneumonia, but pneumonia in the high-risk groups include: children and frail adults, the elderly over the age of 60; repeated attacks on respiratory diseases, including sinusitis, otitis media in children and adults ; Lung disease patients, patients with heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease patients, patients with diabetes, cancer, sickle-cell anemia patients; Hodgkin's disease patients, immune system dysfunction; splenectomy; or Determined to carry out splenectomy patients, should be of at least 15 days before vaccination; determined to carry out immunosuppressive therapy, should be vaccinated in advance; living in chronic long-term care or long-term care institutions are.

And above all should be vaccinated "multi-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine," the main target.

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