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Continuous Pneumococcal Invasive Disease Reduction, High Impact on Pneumococcal Empyemas and Meningitis, and Serotype 19A Disappearance Following PCV-13 Vaccination in Children: Eleven and a Half Years of Active Surveillance in a Mexican Hospital on the U.S. Border

BACKGROUND: The Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California, is the world’s most transited frontier. We have previously published pneumococcal serotype replacement following PCV-7 introduction, especially by serotypes 19-A, 3 and 6A/C. Since May/2012 universal vaccination with PCV-13 was introduced fo...

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Autores principales: Chacon-Cruz, Enrique, Alvelais-Palacios, Jorge Arturo, Lopatynsky-Reyes, Erika Zoe, Volker-Soberanes, Maria Luisa, Rivas-Landeros, Rosa Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631464/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1820