Erratum: Pneumococcal disease in Australia: current status and future challenges

Abstract

In the article 'Pneumococcal disease in Australia: current status and future challenges' published in the last issue of Communicable Diseases Intelligence (Commun Dis Intell 2003;27:78-88). The last sentence on page 80 which reads, ‘In Victoria, preliminary data from a National Health and Medical Research Council funded hospital-based case-cohort study suggest that 23vPPV has an effectiveness of 80 per cent when measured against an outcome of hospitalisation for pneumonia’ is erroneous and should be ignored.