Current Epidemiology and Trends in Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease--United States, 1989-2008
Author(s) -
Jessica R. MacNeil,
Amy Cohn,
M. Farley,
Richard Mair,
Jan Baumbach,
Neville Bennett,
Kenneth Gershman,
Laura Harrison,
Ruth Lynfield,
Susan Petit,
Arthur Reingold,
William Schaffner,
Ann Thomas,
Fátima Coronado,
Elizabeth R. Zell,
Leonard W. Mayer,
Thomas A. Clark,
Nancy E. Messonnier
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cir735
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , epidemiology , haemophilus influenzae , pediatrics , population , conjugate vaccine , disease burden , disease , serotype , immunology , environmental health , immunization , antibiotics , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , antigen , physics , optics
With the introduction of Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) conjugate vaccines, there has been a dramatic reduction of Hib disease in young children and the epidemiological trends of invasive H. influenzae have shifted.
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