High multiple carriage and emergence of Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine serotype variants in Malawian children

BACKGROUND: Carriage of either single or multiple pneumococcal serotypes (multiple carriage) is a prerequisite for developing invasive pneumococcal disease. However, despite the reported high rates of pneumococcal carriage in Malawi, no data on carriage of multiple serotypes has been reported previo...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:BMC Infect Dis
Main Authors: Kamng’ona, Arox W., Hinds, Jason, Bar-Zeev, Naor, Gould, Katherine A., Chaguza, Chrispin, Msefula, Chisomo, Cornick, Jennifer E., Kulohoma, Benard W., Gray, Katherine, Bentley, Stephen D., French, Neil, Heyderman, Robert S., Everett, Dean B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
Subjects:
Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4474563/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26088623
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0980-2
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items