Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2020)

Effectiveness of 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine against Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Adults, Japan, 2013–2017

  • Reiko Shimbashi,
  • Motoi Suzuki,
  • Bin Chang,
  • Hiroshi Watanabe,
  • Yoshinari Tanabe,
  • Koji Kuronuma,
  • Kengo Oshima,
  • Takaya Maruyama,
  • Hiroaki Takeda,
  • Kei Kasahara,
  • Jiro Fujita,
  • Junichiro Nishi,
  • Tetsuya Kubota,
  • Keiko Tanaka-Taya,
  • Tamano Matsui,
  • Tomimasa Sunagawa,
  • Kazunori Oishi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2610.191531
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 10
pp. 2378 – 2386

Abstract

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The decline in the proportion of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)–covered serotypes among adult invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) patients might change the overall effectiveness of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) because its effectiveness differs according to serotype. Using the indirect cohort method, we calculated the effectiveness of PPSV23 against IPD among adults in Japan to assess the impact of the national pediatric PCV program. Clinical and epidemiologic information and pneumococcal isolates were collected from IPD patients >20 years of age through enhanced IPD surveillance during April 2013–December 2017. Adjusted effectiveness against PPSV23-serotype IPD was 42.2%. Despite a substantial decline in the proportion of 13-valent PCV serotypes during the study period (45% to 31%), the change in effectiveness for PPSV23-serotype IPD was limited (47.1% to 39.3%) and only marginal in the elderly population (39.9% to 39.4%). The pediatric PCV program had limited impact on PPSV23 effectiveness against IPD in adults.

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