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SUBMITTER: Roberts S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6963301 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roberts Sean S Williams Clare M CM Salmon Sharon L SL Bonin Jesse L JL Metzger Dennis W DW Furuya Yoichi Y
Vaccines 20191011 4
Secondary bacterial pneumonia is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality during seasonal and pandemic influenza. Due to the unpredictability of influenza A virus evolution and the time-consuming process of manufacturing strain-specific influenza vaccines, recent efforts have been focused on developing anti-<i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> immunity to prevent influenza-related illness and death. Bacterial vaccination to prevent viral-bacterial synergistic interaction during co-infectio ...[more]