Initial Effects of the National PCV7 Childhood Immunization Program on Adult Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Israel

• Gili Regev-Yochay ,

  * E-mail: gregev@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Galia Rahav,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Klaris Riesenberg,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Yonit Wiener-Well,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Jacob Strahilevitz,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease, Hadassah-Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Michal Stein,

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

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• Daniel Glikman,

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Service, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel

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• Gabriel Weber,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

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• Israel Potasman,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Bnei-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

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• Ron Dagan,

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Soroka University Medical Center & Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• for the IAIPD study group

  ¶Membership in the IAIPD study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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