[PROVE] Otitis Media Pathogens Skewed by 7-Valent Pneumococcal Vaccine

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[PROVE note: This vaccine was designed to target the 7 most ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT

strains of pneumococcal bacteria (a result of abusive medical intervention

practices.) Now that more children are vaccinated with this vaccine, other

opportunistic bacteria are gladly filling its shoes in cases of childhood ear

infections causing the whole epidemiology of childhood ear infections to be

drastically altered. Let me guess, the drug companies are busy working to

create a new vaccine to address this...P.S. Happy New Year everybody! Dawn]

Otitis Media Pathogens Skewed by 7-Valent Pneumococcal Vaccine

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/466298?mpid=22855

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Dec 22 - Certain strains of bacteria are more

prevalent in children with acute otitis media who have been inoculated with the

pneumococcal 7-valent protein conjugate (PNC7) vaccine, researchers report, with

strains not included in the vaccine being favored.

As lead investigator Dr. M. McEllistrem told Reuters Health, " the

proportion of cases of pneumococcal acute otitis media due to non-vaccine

serogroup strains rapidly increased from 1999 to 2001 in children who received

at least two doses of PNC7 vaccine. "

Before licensure of this vaccine, about 85% of middle-ear isolates from children

with the disease were of vaccine serotypes or cross-reacting serotypes.

However, Dr. McEllistrem of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and

colleagues found that from 1999 to 2001, the proportion of non-vaccine

serogroups increased from 14.8% to 36.5%.

Furthermore, they report in the December 1st issue of the Journal of Infectious

Diseases, among children who received at least two doses of PNC7 vaccine, 46.7%

of the isolates had non-vaccine serotypes compared with 20.8% in children who

did not receive the vaccine.

Although this phenomenon is occurring among children who have acute otitis media

due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, " significant serotype replacement has not been

detected among children with pneumococcal invasive disease since introduction of

the PNC7 vaccine, " Dr. McEllistrem pointed out.

" These data, " she concluded, " underscore the importance of the monitoring the

epidemiology of pneumococcal infections in the PNC7 vaccine era. "

J Infect Dis 2003;188:1679-1684.

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