Pneumococci in the African Meningitis Belt: Meningitis Incidence and Carriage Prevalence in Children and Adults

BACKGROUND: The development of optimal vaccination strategies for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines requires serotype-specific data on disease incidence and carriage prevalence. This information is lacking for the African meningitis belt. METHODS: We conducted hospital-based surveillance of acute bact...

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Autores principales: Mueller, Judith E., Yaro, Seydou, Ouédraogo, Macaire S., Levina, Natalia, Njanpop-Lafourcade, Berthe-Marie, Tall, Haoua, Idohou, Régina S., Sanou, Oumarou, Kroman, Sita S., Drabo, Aly, Nacro, Boubacar, Millogo, Athanase, van der Linden, Mark, Gessner, Bradford D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23285051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052464

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23285051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052464

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