为应对肺炎球菌性疾病的压力而作出紧急持久的努力的必要性正成为出席世界卫生组织(WHO)会议的顶级科学家的中心议题。肺炎球菌性疾病是由肺炎链球菌引致的感染;当这些细菌侵入肺脏时常常可引发最常见的细菌性肺炎,并侵入血液(菌血症)和／或大脑与脊髓周围的组织和流体(脑膜炎)。肺炎球菌性肺炎和脑膜炎是每年80万-100 The need to make an urgent and sustained effort to address the strain of pneumococcal disease is becoming central to the top scientists attending World Health Organization meetings. Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae; when these bacteria invade the lungs they can often trigger the most common bacterial pneumonia and invade blood (bacteremia) and / or tissues and fluids around the brain and spinal cord inflammation). Pneumococcal pneumonia and meningitis are 800,000-100 per year