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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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Autores principales: Weinberger, Daniel M., Trzciński, Krzysztof, Lu, Ying-Jie, Bogaert, Debby, Brandes, Aaron, Galagan, James, Anderson, Porter W., Malley, Richard, Lipsitch, Marc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19521509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000476