As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure; especially in the case of pneumococcal disease, as the bacteria may develop resistance to antibiotics, and thus the treatment may fail to cure the child from the infection.2

 

In KSA, the emergence of high-level resistance to penicillin has made the treatment more complicated.8 Reports of resistance to other antibiotics also have also been emerging from various parts of the Kingdom, including antibiotics such as: erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, cephalosporins.9,10 This situation highlights the significance of vaccination in order to control pneumococcal diseases. The current available pneumococcal vaccine provides an easy and effective protection against infections caused by the common 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria.