High rate of pneumococcal bacteremia in a prospective cohort of older children and adults in an area of high HIV prevalence in rural western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Although causing substantial morbidity, the burden of pneumococcal disease among older children and adults in Africa, particularly in rural settings, is not well-characterized. We evaluated pneumococcal bacteremia among 21,000 persons ≥5 years old in a prospective cohort as part of popul...

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Hauptverfasser: Feikin, Daniel R, Jagero, Geoffrey, Aura, Barrack, Bigogo, Godfrey M, Oundo, Joseph, Beall, Bernard W, Karani, Angela, Morpeth, Susan, Njenga, M Kariuki, Breiman, Robert F
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2010
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901359/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20573224
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-186
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