Perinatal and Crowding-Related Risk Factors for Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Infants and Young Children: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

• Published in: Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1051 - 1056
• Main Authors: Hjuler, Thomas, Wohlfahrt, Jan, Simonsen, Jacob, Kaltoft, Margit S., Koch, Anders, Kamper-Jørgensen, Mads, Biggar, Robert J., Melbye, Mads
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago, IL The University of Chicago Press 15.04.2007; University of Chicago Press; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Articles and Commentaries; Babies; Bacterial diseases; Biological and medical sciences; Birth weight; Case-Control Studies; Child; Children; Children & youth; Crowding - physiopathology; Day care; Disease control; Disease risk; Epidemiology; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infant; Infants; Infectious diseases; Low birth weight; Medical sciences; Pediatrics; Perinatal Care - methods; Pneumococcal Infections - epidemiology; Pneumococcal Infections - prevention & control; Pneumococcal Vaccines; Population Surveillance; Predisposing factors; Risk Factors; Siblings; Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Denmark; Human; Infection; Streptococcal infection; Risk factor; Bacteriosis; Perinatal; Infant; Case control study; Child; Pneumococcal infection

Background. Denmark's systems of registry-based data offer a unique opportunity to examine, on a population basis, risk factors for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) relating to perinatal and crowding exposures among children. The main objective of this study was to identify the role of famil...