Panel 8: Vaccines and immunology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To review and highlight significant advances made towards vaccine development and understanding of the immunology of otitis media (OM) since the 19th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media (ISOM) in 2015, as well as identify future research directions and knowledge gaps.

Data sources

PubMed database, National Library of Medicine.

Review methods

Key topics were assigned to each panel member for detailed review. Draft reviews were collated, circulated, and thoroughly discussed when the panel met at the 20th ISOM in June 2019. The final manuscript was prepared with input from all panel members.

Conclusions

Since 2015 there have been a number of studies assessing the impact of licensed pneumococcal vaccines on OM. While these studies h

SUBMITTER: Alderson MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7153269 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature