Association of Laboratory Methods, Colonization Density, and Age With Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Nasopharynx

Culture-based methods for detecting Streptococcus pneumoniae in the nasopharynx lack sensitivity. In this study, we aimed to compare the performance of culture and molecular methods in detecting pneumococcus in the nasopharynx of healthy individuals and to evaluate the associations of age and coloni...

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Pubblicato in:Am J Epidemiol
Autori principali: Sutcliffe, Catherine G, Grant, Lindsay R, Cloessner, Emily, Klugman, Keith P, Vidal, Jorge E, Reid, Raymond, Colelay, Janene, Weatherholtz, Robert C, Chochua, Sopio, Jacobs, Michael R, Santosham, Mathuram, O’Brien, Katherine L, Hammitt, Laura L
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press 2019
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036660/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31509184
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz191
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