EDITORIAL WHAT ROLE FOR PROTEIN‐CONJUGATE PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE IN OLDER ADULTS? Invasive pneumococcal disease is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among persons aged 65 years and older. Pneumococcal disease burden also remains high among adults over 50 years of age. In this editorial the authors discuss the priority of continued 23‐valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine use in older adults, whilst also emphasising the importance of directing future attention to the development of vaccines t ...

Dinesh Mehta, Chavi Mehta, Sachin Bansal, Sulbha Singla, Nitin Tangri
2012 Australasian Medical Journal  
Foreign body aspiration can be a life-threatening event especially in young children because they have smaller diameters of airway lumen, moreover, the delay in the diagnosis and subsequent therapeutic intervention can further increase the risk of morbidity.
doi:10.21767/amj.2012.1127 fatcat:e4y735fldjfddhkux34yy4ysni