Positive results for Pfizer's Prevenar 13 for community acquired pneumonia

19 March 2015
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US pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) says that positive findings from its Community-Acquired Pneumonia Immunization Trial in Adults (CAPiTA) have been published in the March 19 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

The study, conducted in collaboration with Julius Clinical and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, investigated the efficacy of immunization with Prevenar 13 (pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine [13-valent, adsorbed]) to prevent a first episode of vaccine-type pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), including non-bacteremic/non-invasive CAP, and vaccine-type invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in adults aged 65 years and older. The study achieved its primary and secondary objectives.

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