Anales de pediatría : publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)
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February 2008
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is the microorganism most frequently associated with complicated pleural effusion. After the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine, there was a decline in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease and, to a lesser extent, in that of pneumonia. However, the incidence of empyema apparently increased. The antipneumococcal heptavalent vaccine was introduced in Spain in 2001. ⋯ The trend in the incidence of parapneumonic pleural effusions was parallel and proportional to that of probable bacterial pneumonia.