Polysaccharide conjugate vaccine against pneumococcal pneumonia in adults.

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Published in N Engl J Med on March 19, 2015

Authors

Marc J M Bonten1, Susanne M Huijts, Marieke Bolkenbaas, Chris Webber, Scott Patterson, Samantha Gault, Cornelis H van Werkhoven, Anna M M van Deursen, Elisabeth A M Sanders, Theo J M Verheij, Michael Patton, Anne McDonough, Anita Moradoghli-Haftvani, Helen Smith, Tracey Mellelieu, Michael W Pride, Graham Crowther, Beate Schmoele-Thoma, Daniel A Scott, Kathrin U Jansen, Rita Lobatto, Bas Oosterman, Nils Visser, Esther Caspers, Andre Smorenburg, Emilio A Emini, William C Gruber, Diederick E Grobbee

Author Affiliations

1: From the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care (M.J.M.B., S.M.H., M.B., C.H.W., A.M.M.D., T.J.M.V.) and the Department of Medical Microbiology (M.J.M.B., S.M.H., M.B., C.H.W., A.M.M.D., T.J.M.V.), University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, UMC Utrecht (A.M.M.D., E.A.M.S.), Utrecht, Research Center Linnaeus Institute, Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp (A.M.M.D.), and Julius Clinical, Zeist (R.L., B.O., N.V., E.C., A.S., D.E.G.) - all in the Netherlands; Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research, Maidenhead, United Kingdom (C.W., S.G., M.P., A.M., A.M.-H., H.S., T.M., G.C.); Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research, Collegeville, PA (S.P., E.A.E.); Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development (M.W.P., K.U.J.) and Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research (D.A.S., E.A.E., W.C.G.), Pearl River, NY; and Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research, Berlin (B.S.-T.).

Associated clinical trials:

Study Evaluating the Effiacy of a 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (13vPnC) in Adults (CAPITA) | NCT00744263

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