| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Risk of infection???and mortality??? is highest in the first year of life, decreases in midlife, and increases again in old age.5-7 Roughly 19% to 26% of patients who acquire pneumococcal meningitis die, and approximately 15% of survivors have residual and severe handicaps, such as deafness or brain injury.3,8,9 In addition to being the most common cause of meningitis, S pneumoniae is the most com
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