Effectiveness of the 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV23) against Pneumococcal Disease in the Elderly: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

• Gerhard Falkenhorst ,

  * E-mail: FalkenhorstG@rki.de

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-4847

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• Cornelius Remschmidt,

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Thomas Harder,

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Eva Hummers-Pradier,

  Affiliation Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Ole Wichmann,

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Christian Bogdan

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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