Population Biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in West Africa: Multilocus Sequence Typing of Serotypes That Exhibit Different Predisposition to Invasive Disease and Carriage

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the population biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in developing countries, although the majority of pneumococcal infections occur in this setting. The aim of the study was to apply MLST to investigate the population biology of S. pneumoniae in West Africa. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Donkor, Eric S., Adegbola, Richard A., Wren, Brendan W., Antonio, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23342041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053925

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23342041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053925

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