Pneumococcal vaccines exist as vaccines against the bacterium Streptococcus pneumonia. Their usage can control some issues of pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis.
There is no effective vaccine for newborn infants.
Pneumococcal vaccines exist as vaccines against the bacterium Streptococcus pneumonia. Their usage can control some issues of pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis. There exist two kinds of pneumococcal vaccines: conjugate vaccines and polysaccharide vaccines.
In the polysaccharide vaccine, only the sugar portion of the bacteria, the capsule, exists formed as the antigen to promote the immune response.
A conjugate vaccine exists as a kind of subunit vaccine which merges a weak antigen with a powerful antigen as a carrier so that the immune system contains a stronger reaction to the weak antigen.
There is no effective vaccine for newborn infants.
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