Field Evaluation of Culture plus Latex Sweep Serotyping for Detection of Multiple Pneumococcal Serotype Colonisation in Infants and Young Children

BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) culture by World Health Organisation (WHO) methodology underestimates multiple pneumococcal serotype colonisation compared to a simple culture and latex sweep method. The impacts of this on descriptions of pneumococcal serotype distributions and colonisation dyn...

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Autores principales: Turner, Paul, Turner, Claudia, Jankhot, Auscharee, Phakaudom, Kawalee, Nosten, Francois, Goldblatt, David
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/PMC3699458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23844133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067933

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3699458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23844133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067933

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