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Observational studyHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2025

Serotype distribution among adults with community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia in Japan between 2019 and 2022: A multicenter observational study.

Haruka Maeda, Isao Ito, Eiichiro Sando, Nobuyoshi Hamao, Masahiro Shirata, Bhim Gopal Dhoubhadel, Desmond Opoku Ntiamoah, Issei Oi, Kensuke Nishioka, Hiroshi Fujii and 23 more

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Observational study in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

33 authors.

Haruka MaedaDepartment of Respiratory Infections, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0014-2602
Isao ItoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Eiichiro SandoDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Infectious Diseases, Kita-Fukushima Medical Center, Fukushima, Japan.
Nobuyoshi HamaoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Masahiro ShirataDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Bhim Gopal DhoubhadelDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Infectious Diseases, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
Desmond Opoku NtiamoahSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Issei OiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Kensuke NishiokaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Hiroshi FujiiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Kayoko OkamuraDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Akashi City Hospital, Akashi, Japan.
Taisei InoueDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Takashi YamadaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shizuoka City Shizuoka Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
Seisuke NiibayashiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto Minami Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Mitsuhiro TsukinoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Hikone Municipal Hospital, Hikone, Japan.
Yuya FujiiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Sugita Genpaku Memorial Obama Municipal Hospital, Obama, Japan.
Michiko TsuchiyaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Yasuharu NakaharaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Japan.
Yoshinori HasegawaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Atsushi NakagawaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Takakazu SugitaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Japan Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan.
Akihiro ItoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan.
Naoki SakaiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Otsu Hospital, Otsu, Japan.
Yusuke KajiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tenri Hospital, Tenri, Japan.
Yuko ToyodaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Tomoyuki UrataDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kochi Health Science Center, Kochi, Japan.
Norichika AsohDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
Akira NishiyamaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki Rosai Hospital, Sasebo, Japan.
Ai YagiuchiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Toru MorikawaDepartment of General Medicine, Nara City Hospital, Nara, Japan.
Atsuhito UshikiFirst Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Masayuki IshidaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Chikamori Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
Konosuke MorimotoDepartment of Respiratory Infections, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Community-Acquired InfectionsPneumococcal VaccinesPneumonia, PneumococcalStreptococcus pneumoniaeAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansJapanMaleMiddle AgedSerogroupVaccines, ConjugatePneumococcal VaccinesVaccines, ConjugateadultJapannursing homepneumococcal conjugate vaccinesPneumococcal pneumoniaserotype distribution

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PMID40576179
PMCPMC12218540

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