Emergence of Meningitis Caused by Nonvaccine Serotypes of Pneumococcus in Rural United States

Jessie Marks; Guru V Bhoojhawon; Katherine D Patrick; Kelly E Wood

doi:10.1155/2020/2372843

Emergence of Meningitis Caused by Nonvaccine Serotypes of Pneumococcus in Rural United States

Case Rep Pediatr. 2020 Nov 27:2020:2372843. doi: 10.1155/2020/2372843. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Jessie Marks¹, Guru V Bhoojhawon¹, Katherine D Patrick¹, Kelly E Wood¹

Affiliation

¹ Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, 200 Hawkins Dr., Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.

Abstract

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have decreased the rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children. Since vaccine introduction, however, rates of infection due to nonvaccine Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes have increased. We now describe 3 meningitis cases due to the nonvaccine serotypes 35B and 11A from rural United States.

Publication types

Case Reports