@article{0027c5cfc2304a128dcd32e4e9f9fbe3,
title = "IMMUNISATION WITH A POLYVALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE. Reduction of Adult Respiratory Mortality in a New Guinea Highlands Community",
abstract = "A double-blind controlled trial of a 14-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine was carried out in 11 958 adults at Tari in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Pneumococcal infection, confirmed by blood-culture and lung aspirate, was less in the vaccinated group by 84%. Mortality from pneumonia was less by 44%.",
author = "Riley, {I. D.} and M. Andrews and R. Howard and Tarr, {P. I.} and M. Pfeiffer and P. Challands and G. Jennison and Douglas, {R. M.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported by the Medical Research Council, London, and the World Health Organisation. We thank Dr R. S. Bray for Funding Information: The trial was supported by the Department of Public Health, Papua New Guinea, and by a grant from Merck, Sharp and Dohme Limited,",
year = "1977",
month = jun,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1016/S0140-6736(77)92552-1",
language = "English",
volume = "309",
pages = "1338--1341",
journal = "The Lancet",
issn = "0140-6736",
number = "8026",
}