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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Dispatch

Vaccine-Induced Waning of Haemophilus influenzae Empyema and Meningitis, Angola

Heikki Peltola, Tuula PelkonenComments to Author , Luis Bernardino, Lurdes Monteiro1, Silvia da Conceição Silvestre, Elizabete Anjos, Manuel Leite Cruzeiro, Anne Pitkäranta, and Irmeli Roine
Author affiliations: Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (H. Peltola, T. Pelkonen, A. Pitkäranta); David Bernardino Children’s Hospital, Luanda, Angola (T. Pelkonen, L. Bernardino, S. da Conceição Silvestre, E. Anjos, M.L. Cruzeiro); National Health Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (L. Monteiro); University Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile (I. Roine)

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Figure 1

Distribution of 2,634 pleural fluid (empyema) (A) and 2,996 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) isolates (B) from children who received treatment at David Bernardino Children’s Hospital, Luanda, Angola, during 2003–2012. Numbers above the light green bars in the upper panel comprise the total Haemophilus influenzae isolates found alone or with Streptococcus spp. (mostly S. pneumoniae). The numbers of mixed infections were as follows: 24, 24, 9, 15, 6, 2, 4, 6, 0, and 0, respectively. Hib, H. influenzae ty

Figure 1. Distribution of 2,634 pleural fluid (empyema) (A) and 2,996 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) isolates (B) from children who received treatment at David Bernardino Children’s Hospital, Luanda, Angola, during 2003–2012. Numbers above the light green bars in the upper panel comprise the total Haemophilus influenzae isolates found alone or with Streptococcus spp. (mostly S. pneumoniae). The numbers of mixed infections were as follows: 24, 24, 9, 15, 6, 2, 4, 6, 0, and 0, respectively. Hib, H. influenzae type b.

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1Current affiliation: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.

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