Diseases and vaccines

Pneumococcal resources - general

Featured resources

The Pink Book—Epidemiology and prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases: Pneumococcal disease (2006)
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This standard reference is frequently updated with the latest information on vaccine-preventable diseases.

PneumoADIP
Supported by the GAVI Alliance, the Pneumococcal Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan (PneumoADIP) at Johns Hopkins University offers a vast array of resources about pneumococcal disease, financing options for vaccines and immunization, and pneumococcal vaccines. PneumoADIP aims to accelerate the availability of pneumococcal vaccines in the developing world.

Pneumococcal disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This web page offers descriptions of pneumococcal disease and vaccines, links to resources, frequently asked questions, and other related information.

Pneumococcal vaccines
WHO
An overview of pneumococcal disease and ongoing research into pneumococcal vaccines.

General information

Gambia Pneumococcal Vaccine Trial
Details of an important vaccine field efficacy study in Africa.

PubMed Searches
These pre-formatted PubMed searches will retrieve journal citations and available abstracts that address disease burden, vaccine efficacy and benefits, model programs and cost issues in Asian, African, and Latin American countries.  Documents may be ordered through Loansome Doc if you have established an agreement with a participating library. See the "registration" button on the Loansome Doc ordering screen for a list of participating libraries. There is free searching on other topics through PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/.

WHO Position paper on pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (2007)
WHO. Weekly Epidemiologic Record. 12(82):93-104.
A summary of pneumococcal disease and its burden, as well as the official WHO position on use of conjugate vaccines in a global context. (In English and French)

Vaccines in the era of genomics: The pneumococcal challenge (2007; abstract only)

Barocchi, Michèle Ann, et al. Vaccine. 25(16):2963-2973.

Related diseases

Hib bacteria are a significant cause of childhood meningitis (inflammation of the covering of the brain) and are a major cause of bacterial pneumonia in children. Visit the Hib section of PATH’s Vaccine Resource library to learn more about Hib disease and prevention.