Abstract
Background Short-term mortality after invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and pneumococcal pneumonia is high but data on long-term mortality (including the comparison between bacteremic and non-invasive/non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia) within the first years after diagnosis are scarce. Methods Adult patients with ‘non-pneumonia’ IPD and ‘invasive pneumonia’ (from 2004 to 2012) and with
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