Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Parkville, Victoria, Australia


Purpose

to demonstrate how nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage surveillance in hospitalized children with respiratory illness or pneumonia can be used to estimate the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage required to show evidence of herd immunity

Division

Global Health

Date

October 2014

Region Served

ASIA, OCEANIA

Committed amount

$2,994,783

Grant topic

Pneumonia & Pandemic Preparedness

Duration (months)

72

Grantee location

Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Related work

Pneumonia

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