… persons with underlying medical conditions (chronic … Other risk factors include male sex,
alcohol abuse, cigarette … countries including the USA and the countries of the European Union.6…

… invasive pneumococcal disease cases in England and Wales to estimate incidence rate
ratios (IRRs) for vaccine and non-vaccine type invasive pneumococcal disease … in children …

… on demographics, invasive pneumococcal disease risk factors, … substantially between children
with underlying conditions (81·… -type invasive pneumococcal disease among children with …

… in children with underlying predisposing conditions, such as … of disease causing serotypes
in the North America, Europe, … in the Southern Cone of South America) prior to PCV7 …

… of childhood invasive pneumococcal disease post-introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate
… -7 VT (27.4%) in the post-PCV era in Africa is comparable to that reported in Europe [36]. …

… Twenty-five studies evaluated possible risk factors for … against pneumococcal disease need
to target young children, … from Central or South America, the Caribbean, or Europe due to the …

… North America or Europe. … burden of IPD falls disproportionately on young children, especially
those in low-income countries, and persons at high risk of infection because of underlying …

… impact of childhood pneumococcal … burden in England and Wales, compared with the
Netherlands. A recent meta-analysis including European data assessed the impact of childhood …

… pneumococcal disease [24–26]. This study aims to identify risk factors for overall pneumococcal
… : high-income Israel in the WHO European region and lower-middle-income West Bank …

… risk factors. Several studies suggest a slightly higher prevalence of underlying illnesses
associated with risk of … Behavioral risk factors associated with IPD in children include day care …