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An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood pneumococcal pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading cause of child mortality worldwide. Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) or pneumococcus is estimated to cause 821,000 child deaths each year. It has over 90 serotypes, of which 7 to 13 serotypes are included in current formulations of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines th...

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Autores principales: Webster, Julia, Theodoratou, Evropi, Nair, Harish, Seong, Ang Choon, Zgaga, Lina, Huda, Tanvir, Johnson, Hope L, Madhi, Shabir, Rubens, Craig, Zhang, Jian Shayne F, El Arifeen, Shams, Krause, Ryoko, Jacobs, Troy A, Brooks, Abdullah W, Campbell, Harry, Rudan, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3231900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21501444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-S3-S26