Epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in indigenous and non-indigenous adults in northwestern Ontario Canada 2006–2015

摘要

BackgroundDespite the use of pneumococcal vaccines, indigenous populations are consistently disproportionately affected by invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). With recent changes in Ontario’s provincial pneumococcal vaccination program, we sought to evaluate the epidemiology and burden of IPD in northwestern Ontario (NWO) Canada – a region that contains a substantial (19.2%) indigenous population.