Global distribution and characteristics of pneumococcal serotypes in adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) into pediatric national immunization programs (NIP) has significantly reduced invasive pneumococcal diseases and pneumococcal pneumonia caused by PCV serotypes in adults due to herd immunity. However, diseases caused by PCV13 serotypes persist, mainly serotype 3, known for its severity. With the reduction in PCV13 serotypes, diseases caused by non-PCV13 serotypes increased. Residual and emerging serotypes vary regionally; serotype 8 in Europe and South Africa, and serotype 4 in the US and Canada. PCV20 and PCV21 were recently developed, which can prevent residual and emerging pneumococcal diseases where herd immunity is well-established. In countries that have not introduced PCV into pediatric NIP, the pneumococcal disease burden due to PCV serotypes is still marked. Given that serotype distribution varies by region and evolves over time, this review aimed to discuss serotype distribution and disease severity in adults across countries to support future pneumococcal vaccine strategies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".