Response to a heptavalent conjugateStreptococcus pneumoniae vaccine in children with recurrent infections who are unresponsive to the polysaccharide vaccine

Abstract

Our results show that a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is capable of inducing an IgG response in patients with recurrent infections who had failed to mount an adequate response to the polysaccharide vaccine. Conjugate vaccines may be of value in the management of children with recurrent pneumococcal respiratory infections.