Vaccines in the Prevention of Viral Pneumonia.

Clementine S Fraser, Akhilesh Jha, Peter J M Openshaw

Clinics in chest medicine 2017 Mar

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Pneumonia is of great global public health importance. Viral infections play both direct and indirect parts in its cause across the globe. Influenza is a leading cause of viral pneumonia in both children and adults, and respiratory syncytial virus is increasingly recognized as causing disease at both extremes of age. Vaccination offers the best prospect for prevention but current influenza vaccines do not provide universal and durable protection, and require yearly reformulation. In the future, it is hoped that influenza vaccines will give better and universal protection, and that new vaccines can be found for other causes of viral pneumonia. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Clementine S Fraser, Akhilesh Jha, Peter J M Openshaw. Vaccines in the Prevention of Viral Pneumonia. Clinics in chest medicine. 2017 Mar;38(1):155-169