Abstract
This statement will supplement previous pneumococcal statements1-4 and provide the evidence used to add asthma to the group of conditions that increase an individual’s risk for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD).
This update will:
- Provide a systematic review of the literature on the risk of IPD associated with asthma;
- Make recommendations about the use of pneumococcal vaccines in individuals with asthma
- Recommendation
- Americas
- Canada
- Pneumococcal disease