Vaccination for the control of childhood bacterial pneumonia - Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal vaccines Author Otczyk, Diana C, Cripps, Allan W Published 2013 Journal Title Pneumonia DOI https://doi.org/10.15172/pneu.2013.2/229 Copyright Statement © The Author(s) 2013. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non- commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58092 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au pneumonia 2013 Feb 14;2:2-15 pneumonia Review Vaccination for the control of childhood bacterial pneumonia – Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal vaccines Diana C Otczyk, Allan W Cripps* School of Medicine, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia *Corresponding author: Prof Allan W Cripps, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia. Phone: +61 (0) 7 5678 0711. Email:
[email protected] Author contributions: Each author made an equal contribution to the study Received Sept 17, 2012; Accepted Oct 25, 2012; Published Feb 14, 2013 Abstract Pneumonia in childhood is endemic in large parts of the world and in particular, in developing countries, as well as in many indigenous communities within developed nations. Haemophilus influenzae type b and Streptococ- cus pneumoniae conjugate vaccines are currently available against the leading bacterial causes of pneumonia.