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The Majority of Adult Pneumococcal Invasive Infections in Portugal Are Still Potentially Vaccine Preventable in Spite of Significant Declines of Serotypes 1 and 5

In Portugal, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have been administered to children outside of the national immunization plan since 2001. We determined the serotype and antimicrobial susceptibility of 1265 isolates responsible for adult invasive pneumococcal infections (IPD) between 2009 and 2011 and co...

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Autores principales: Horácio, Andreia N., Diamantino-Miranda, Jorge, Aguiar, Sandra I., Ramirez, Mário, Melo-Cristino, José
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3774749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24066064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073704