Clinical practice guidelines 2019: Indian consensus-based recommendations on pneumococcal vaccination for adults

Raja Dhar¹, Aloke Gopal Ghoshal², Randeep Guleria³, Shubham Sharma⁴, Tarang Kulkarni⁴, Rajesh Swarnakar⁵, JK Samaria⁶, Sudhir Chaudhary⁷, SN Gaur⁸, DJ Christopher⁹, Virendra Singh¹⁰, Georgi Abraham¹¹, Anirban Sarkar¹², Ansuman Mukhopadhyay¹³, Jayant Panda¹⁴, Subramanian Swaminathan¹⁵, Amita Nene¹⁶, Shyam Krishnan¹⁷, Praveen Kumar Shahi⁴, Nikhil Sarangdhar¹⁸, Narayan Mishra¹⁹, Susmita Roy Chowdury²⁰, Indranil Halder²¹, SK Katiyar²², VK Jain²³, Rakesh Chawla²⁴, Parvaiz A Koul^25
1 Department of Pulmonology, Fortis Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, National Allergy Asthma Bronchitis Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
³ Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
⁴ Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Fortis Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
⁵ Department of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Getwell Hospital and Research Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
⁶ Department of TB and Chest Diseases, Centre for Research and Treatment of Allergy, Asthma and Bronchitis, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁷ Department of Pulmonology, Kulwanti Hospitals and Research Center, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine and Tuberculosis, School of Medical Sciences and Research, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
¹⁰ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Asthma Bhawan, Shastri Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
¹¹ Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
¹² Department of Pulmonology, Zenith Superspeciality Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
¹³ Department of Pulmonology, National Allergy Asthma Bronchitis Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
¹⁴ Department of Medicine, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India
¹⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Gleneagles Global Health City, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
¹⁶ Department of Chest Medicine, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
¹⁷ Department of Chest Medicine, Apollo Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
¹⁸ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lung Clinica, Andheri West Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
¹⁹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Odisha, India
²⁰ Department of Chest Medicine, Apollo Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
²¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, College Of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani, Nadia, Uttar Pradesh, India
²² Chest Care Center, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
²³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
²⁴ Dr Rakesh Chawla's Chest, Asthma Allergy and Sleep Clinic, Delhi, India
²⁵ Department of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Correspondence Address:
Raja Dhar
Department of Pulmonology, Fortis Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_272_20