Sisyphus and the Conjugate Vaccines – II
Part one can be found here.
Wipe out some s. pneumo with Prevnar, and more s. pneumo fills in the gap, along with some staph.
The great and shining hope with this situation all along has been an idealistic vision that perhaps the bacteria that filled in the gap would be much milder, or ideally, that nothing would fill in the gap at all. It was hoped that we could just eliminate those bacteria, and horrible diseases like bacterial meningitis would fade into distant memory, along the lines of what supposedly happened with invasive Hib disease, the ultimate conjugate vaccine success story.
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