Etiology of Severe Childhood Pneumonia in The Gambia, West Africa, Determined by Conventional and Molecular Microbiological Analyses of Lung and Pleural Aspirate Samples

Molecular analyses of lung aspirates from Gambian children with severe pneumonia detected pathogens more frequently than did culture and showed a predominance of bacteria, principally Streptococcuspneumoniae, >75% being of serotypes covered by current pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Multiple pat...

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Main Authors: Howie, Stephen R. C., Morris, Gerard A. J., Tokarz, Rafal, Ebruke, Bernard E., Machuka, Eunice M., Ideh, Readon C., Chimah, Osaretin, Secka, Ousman, Townend, John, Dione, Michel, Oluwalana, Claire, Njie, Malick, Jallow, Mariatou, Hill, Philip C., Antonio, Martin, Greenwood, Brian, Briese, Thomas, Mulholland, Kim, Corrah, Tumani, Lipkin, W. Ian, Adegbola, Richard A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Brief Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130311/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24867789
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu384
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