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Pneumococcal Vaccination in Young Children Lowers Healthcare Utilization
Link ID 1591
Title Pneumococcal Vaccination in Young Children Lowers Healthcare Utilization
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/567364?src=rss
Description Among children less than 2 years old, rates of hospitalization and ambulatory care visits for treatment of pneumonia have been cut in half since the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was added to the routine childhood immunization schedule in 2000. Reuters Health Information
Category Articles > Allergy and Clinical Immunology
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Date Dec 15, 2007
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