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Predictors of pneumococcal carriage and the effect of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in the Western Australian Aboriginal population

BACKGROUND: The 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was introduced to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Western Australian (WA) Aboriginal people in 2001. PCV13 replaced PCV7 in July 2011, covering six additional pneumococcal serotypes; however, IPD rates remained high in Abo...

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Autores principales: Collins, Deirdre A., Hoskins, Anke, Snelling, Thomas, Senasinghe, Kalpani, Bowman, Jacinta, Stemberger, Natalie A., Leach, Amanda J., Lehmann, Deborah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5611608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41479-017-0038-x