Anti-pneumococcal vaccination in Cuba. Challenges

Medicine development has shown the need of preventing transmissible diseases by means of Vaccines. After a description of the role of pneumococcus in the origin of diseases, a career towards preventing them was started. In the current century, the first conjugated vaccine was certified against Strep...

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Main Authors: Dunia María Chávez Amaro, María Felicia Casanova González, Jorge Luis Capote Padrón
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2019-02-01
Series:Medisur
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Online Access:http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/4109
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Summary:Medicine development has shown the need of preventing transmissible diseases by means of Vaccines. After a description of the role of pneumococcus in the origin of diseases, a career towards preventing them was started. In the current century, the first conjugated vaccine was certified against Streptococcus pneumonia to be used in children. In Cuba, in spite of the efforts, the anti-pneumococcal vaccine has not been introduced and for more of a decade time scientists have been working in a heptavalent conjugated vaccine, currently in an advanced clinical evaluation. In this work, considerations in this regard are made.
ISSN:1727-897X