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Acute Otitis Media Replacement and Recurrence in the Finnish Otitis Media Vaccine Trial
Author(s) -
Janne J. Jokinen,
Arto A. Palmu,
Terhi Kilpi
Publication year - 2012
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/cis799
Subject(s) - medicine , acute otitis media , otitis , pneumococcal conjugate vaccine , clinical trial , pediatrics , disease , surgery , streptococcus pneumoniae , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
We reanalyzed the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial FinOM for prevention of acute otitis media (AOM), with a focus on disease replacement due to other pathogens and AOM recurrence. We found evidence of replacement disease occurring early during the trial follow-up and little vaccine impact on recurrent overall AOM episodes.

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