Bacterial Infections
Summary
- S pneumoniae is the major cause of CAP[Mundy 1995; ref: Mandell 2007]
- CAP incidence has decreased with use of the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine[Millar 2008]
- In the pre-HAART era, rates of CAP and S pneumoniae bacteremia were increased in patients with HIV compared with persons without HIV[Wallace 1993; Schuchat 1991]
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