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Burden of Disease Prevenar 13® Effectiveness Dosing Risk Prevention Important Safety Information Abbreviated Prescribing Information
Risk Prevention

Highest rates of IPD were found in children aged <12 months or >36 months.2

  • The risk of mortality increases with underlying comorbidities in older children and adolescents1
 Objective and Method:
A nested case-control study to examine the association between asthma and invasive pneumococcal disease was conducted. The study population included persons 2 to 49 years of age who were enrolled in Tennessee Medicaid program (TennCare) for more than one year during the study period (1995 through 2002) and who resided in counties participating in a prospective laboratory-based program of surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease. Result was evaluated at 95% CI.3The PCV approved for children 5 to 17 years of age1
  • Children 5 to 17 years of age may receive a single dose of Prevenar 13® if they have been previously vaccinated with one or more doses of Prevenar 13®.1
Immune responses elicited by a single dose of Prevenar 13® is noninferior to Prevenar for the 7 common serotypes.1
  • In an open-label study in 592 healthy children and adolescents including those with asthma (17.4%) who may be predisposed to pneumococcal infection, Prevenar 13® elicited immune responses to all 13 serotypes.1 
  • In both the children 5 to 10 years of age and children and adolescents aged 10 to 17years, the immune response to Prevenar 13® was non inferior to Prevenar for the 7 common serotypes.1
Most commonly reported adverse events in children 6 weeks through 17 years:1 

Tenderness, redness or swelling at the injection site, irritability, decreased appetite, poor quality sleep and fever

Abbreviation: 

PCV, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

References:
  1. Egyptian drug authority Prevenar 13 leaflet approval date 7/4/2021, revision date November 2020.
  2. Picazo J, et al. Relationship between serotypes, age, and clinical presentation of invasive pneumococcal disease in Madrid, Spain, after introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine into the vaccination calendar. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2011;18(1):89-94.
  3. Talbot TR, et al. Asthma as a risk factor for invasive pneumococcal disease. N Engl J Med. 2005;352(20):2082-2090.

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