Abstract
The following key issues of pneumococcal infection prophylaxis were discussed during the expert council: incidence rates of community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia and other pneumococcal infections, local epidemiological data, increases in antimicrobial resistance and pneumococcal serotypes substitution, current international and Russian clinical guidelines, practical approaches, and pneumococcal vaccination coverage of adult population in the Russian Federation. The agreement between the experts about a need to distinguish the use of conjugate vaccines and polysaccharide vaccines in different subpopulations has been achieved.
Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Smolensk, Russia
Research Institute of Pulmonology, Moscow, Russia
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Research Institute of Pulmonology, Moscow, Russia
Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera, Moscow, Russia
Children Scientific Clinical Center of Infectious Diseases, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Children Scientific Clinical Center of Infectious Diseases, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Moscow, Russia
Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N.N. Burdenko, Moscow, Russia
Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after V.F. Voyno-Yasenetskiy, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
RUDN University, Moscow, Russia
Perm State Medical University named after E.A. Wagner, Perm, Russia