Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence

There are 91 known capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence of particular serotypes is relatively stable worldwide, but the host and bacterial factors that maintain these patterns are poorly understood. Given the possibility of serotype replacement follo...

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Main Authors: Weinberger, Daniel M., Trzciński, Krzysztof, Lu, Ying-Jie, Bogaert, Debby, Brandes, Aaron, Galagan, James, Anderson, Porter W., Malley, Richard, Lipsitch, Marc
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689349/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19521509
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000476
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