Expand vaccines that prevent infections and antibiotic demand
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Increase coverage of existing vaccines (pneumococcal, Hib, influenza, rotavirus, typhoid) and develop new vaccines against high-burden bacterial pathogens to prevent resistant infections and cut antibiotic demand.
United States
PartialUnited States immunization programmes, healthcare providers and public-health agencies · National
The United States introduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV7, later expanded to PCV13) for children in 2000. Vaccination reduced invasive pneumococcal disease caused by vaccine serotypes — many of which were an…
Vaccine-serotype invasive pneumococcal disease in children90 percent decreasechange since vaccine introduction (2000)
Vaccine-serotype invasive pneumococcal disease in adults (indirect/herd protection)60 percent decreasechange since vaccine introduction (2000)
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