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Rates of Acquisition and Clearance of Pneumococcal Serotypes in the Nasopharynges of Children in Kilifi District, Kenya

Background. To understand and model the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines at the population level, we need to know the transmission dynamics of individual pneumococcal serotypes. We estimated serotype-specific clearance and acquisition rates of nasopharyngeal colonization among Kenyan childr...

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Autores principales: Abdullahi, Osman, Karani, Angela, Tigoi, Caroline C., Mugo, Daisy, Kungu, Stella, Wanjiru, Eva, Jomo, Jane, Musyimi, Robert, Lipsitch, Marc, Scott, J. Anthony G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3433858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22829650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jis447