1. Hospital-based Surveillance for Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis in the Era of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Ghana
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Thomas Dankwah, Archibald Worwui, Bernard Ntsama, Daniel Ansong, Jonas Tettey Kusah, Martin Antonio, Madikay Senghore, Bernard Arhin, Brenda Kwanbana Adams, Lorna Renner, Yvonne Addo, Peter Slyvanus Ndow, John Asamoah, Marah Awunyo, Jason M. Mwenda, Effua Usuf, Stanley K. Diamenu, Sandra Kwarteng Owusu, Nuredin Mohammed, and Joseph Nsiari-Muzeyi Biey
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,Serotype ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030106 microbiology ,Supplement Articles ,Neisseria meningitidis ,medicine.disease_cause ,World Health Organization ,Ghana ,Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine ,Haemophilus influenzae ,Meningitis, Bacterial ,Pneumococcal Vaccines ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cost of Illness ,Internal medicine ,Streptococcus pneumoniae ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Disease burden ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,medicine.disease ,Hospitals ,pneumococcal conjugate vaccine ,Infectious Diseases ,Pneumococcal vaccine ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,business ,bacterial meningitis ,Meningitis ,Sentinel Surveillance ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Background Global surveillance for vaccine preventable invasive bacterial diseases has been set up by the World Health Organization to provide disease burden data to support decisions on introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). We present data from 2010 to 2016 collected at the 2 sentinel sites in Ghana. Methods Data were collected from children, The number of children
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- 2019