Pneumococcal Disease references

Publications Relevant to UK Epidemiology - Pneumococcal Disease

• Department of Health. Planned changes to the routine Childhood Immunisation Programme - 8th February 2006
• Department of Health. The Pneumococcal Immunisation Programme for Older People and Risk Groups, 31st March 2005 (CMO's letter)
• Department of Health . Immunisation against infectious disease 1996 - "The Green Book"
• Djuretic T, Ryan M, Miller E, Fairley CK, Goldblatt D. Hospital admission in children due to pneumococcal pneumonia in England. J Infect 1998; 37:54-8.
• Fine MJ, Smith MA, et al. Efficacy of pneumococcal vaccination in adults - A meta analysis of randomized controlled trials. Arch Intern Med 1994; 154:2666-77.
• George R, Melegaro A. Invasive pneumococcal infection England and Wales 1999 2001; (21) (PDF, 788 KB)
  
  
• Guest JF,.Morris A. Community-acquired pneumonia: the annual cost to the National Health Service in the UK. Eur Resp J 1997; 10:1530-4.

• HPA Invasive pneumococcal infection England and Wales: 2000. 2003; (21) (PDF, 244 KB)
  
  
• Laurichesse H, Grimaud O, Waight P, Johnson AP, George R, Miller E. Pneumococcal bacteremia and meningitis in England and Wales, 1993 to 1995. Commun Dis Public Health 1998; 1:22-7.
• Lim W.S., Macfarlane J.T., Boswell T.C., Harrison T.G., Rose D., Leinonen M. et al. Study of community acquired pneumonia aetiology (SCAPA) in adults admitted to hospital: implications for management guidelines. Thorax 2001; 56:296-301
• Melegaro A, Edmunds WJ, Pebody R, Miller E, George R. The current burden of pneumococcal disease in England and Wales. J Infect. 2006 Jan; 52(1):37-48
• Melegaro A, Edmunds WJ. Cost-effectiveness analysis of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in England and Wales. Vaccine 2004 Oct 22; 22(31-32):4203-14.
• Miller E, Waight P, Efstratiou A, Brisson M, Johnson A, George R. Epidemiology of invasive and other pneumococcal disease in children in England and Wales 1996-1998. Acta Paediatr Suppl 2000; 435:11-6 (Link to abstract)
• Pebody, RG et al  Pneumococcal vaccination policy in Europe. Eurosurveillance 2005:10 (9)  
• Sleeman K, Knox K, George R, Miller E, Waight P, Griffiths D et al. Invasive pneumococcal disease in England and Wales: vaccination implications. J Infect Dis 2001; 183:239-46