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Are Anticapsular Antibodies the Primary Mechanism of Protection against Invasive Pneumococcal Disease?

BACKGROUND: Antibody to capsular polysaccharide has been the basis of several vaccines that offer protection against invasive disease from Streptococcus pneumoniae. The success of such vaccines has led to the inference that natural protection against invasive pneumococcal disease is largely conferre...

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Autores principales: Lipsitch, Marc, Whitney, Cynthia G, Zell, Elizabeth, Kaijalainen, Tarja, Dagan, Ron, Malley, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15696204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020015