Abstract
Refugee children in Germany are not routinely given a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Cases of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in 21 refugee children were compared with those in 405 Germany-born children for 3 pneumococcal seasons. Refugee children had significantly higher odds of vaccine-type IPD and multidrug-resistant IPD than did Germany-born children.
Highlights
Refugee children in Germany are not routinely given a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
The Study In this retrospective, unmatched case-control study, we considered all 514 isolates from children (
Refugee children in Germany are at greater risk of contracting vaccine-type IPD, antimicrobial drug–resistant IPD, and antibiotic-resistant vaccine-type IPD
Summary
Refugee children in Germany are not routinely given a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Since 1997, the German National Reference Center for Streptococci (GNRCS) has been collecting bacterial isolates from IPD cases in children occurring throughout Germany. The Study In this retrospective, unmatched case-control study, we considered all 514 isolates from children (
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