As the infection worsens and spreads, the rash can become more visible ... only a small percentage of people who get them develop meningitis. Pneumococcal meningitis is a rare but serious and ...

infection of the blood (bacteremia/sepsis), middle-ear infection (otitis media), or bacterial meningitis. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that pneumococcal disease is the world’s number ...

A recent retrospective study from researchers at Children’s Hospital Colorado to determine the hearing outcomes of pneumococcal meningitis found that non-PCV-13 serotypes seem to be driving the ...

In Vietnam, children under one account for 65% of IPD cases, and around 61% of pneumococcal meningitis cases occur in children under five. Prof. Dr. Phan Trong Lan, Director of the National Institute ...