General health and otitis media, nasopharyngeal carriage and middle ear microbiology in northern territory aboriginal children vaccinated during consecutive periods of 10-valent or 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines

Abstract Objectives To monitor the prevalence of suppurative otitis media in remote Indigenous communities after introduction of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in October 2011. We previously reported a decline in suppurative OM following replacement of PCV7 by 10-valent pneumococca...

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Published in:	International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology 2016-07, Vol.86, p.224-232
Main Authors:	Leach, Amanda Jane, Wigger, Christine, Beissbarth, Jemima, Woltring, Donna, Andrews, Ross, Chatfield, Mark, Smith-Vaughan, Heidi, Morris, Peter Stanley
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Acute Disease Australia Bacterial Proteins Carrier Proteins Carrier State Child Child, Preschool Ear, Middle - microbiology Female Haemophilus influenzae Humans Immunoglobulin D Infant Lipoproteins Male Middle ear microbiology Nasopharyngeal carriage Nasopharynx - microbiology Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae Oceanic Ancestry Group Otitis media Otitis Media - ethnology Otitis Media - microbiology Otolaryngology Pediatrics Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines Pneumococcal Vaccines Prevalence Risk Factors Staphylococcus Staphylococcus aureus Streptococcus pneumoniae Vaccines, Conjugate
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Summary:	Abstract Objectives To monitor the prevalence of suppurative otitis media in remote Indigenous communities after introduction of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in October 2011. We previously reported a decline in suppurative OM following replacement of PCV7 by 10-valent pneumococcal Haemophilus influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV10) in October 2009. Methods We continued regular surveillance in remote Indigenous communities between February 2010 and August 2013. This analysis reports the general health, otitis media (OM), nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage and middle ear microbiology in children less than 36 months of age who received a primary course of at least two doses of PHiD-CV10 or PCV13, and not more than one dose of another pneumococcal vaccine. Results Mean ages of 511 PHiD-CV10- and 140 PCV13-vaccinated children were 19 and 13 months, respectively. Most children received 3-dose non-mixed PCV schedules. At the time of assessment, general health was poor and prevalence of risk factors was high in both groups: overall, around 14% children had scabies, 20% impetigo, 59% runny nose and 39% had cough. Average household size was 8 persons, 60% mothers smoked. Bilaterally normal middle ears were detected in 10% and 7%, respectively. OM with effusion (OME), almost all bilateral, was diagnosed in 52% and 50%, any suppurative OM (acute OM or any tympanic membrane perforation [TMP]) in 37% and 41%, and TMP in 14% and 12%, respectively. Children in the PCV13 group had significantly less NP carriage of combined Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) and non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae, NTHi (62% versus 51%) but significantly more polymicrobial (Spn and NTHi) middle ear cultures (12% versus 43%), and significantly less Staphylococcus aureus-positive middle ears (40% versus 7%). Although NP carriage of pneumococcal serotype 19A was low in the PCV13 group, serotypes 19F and 23F persist. Conclusions The general health, particularly ear health of little children in remote Australian Indigenous communities remains in crisis. In particular, transition to PCV13 did not show substantial further improvement in ear health. Possible vaccine-related differences in microbiology, including potential beneficial effects of PHiD-CV10 on NTHi infection, need to be further evaluated in randomised trials.
ISSN:	0165-5876 1872-8464