Impact of viral upper respiratory tract infection on the concentration of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage among Kenyan children

Viral upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) predisposes to bacterial pneumonia possibly by facilitating growth of bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae colonising the nasopharynx. We investigated whether viral URTI is temporally associated with an increase in nasopharyngeal pneumococcal conce...

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Autores principales: Morpeth, Susan C., Munywoki, Patrick, Hammitt, Laura L., Bett, Anne, Bottomley, Christian, Onyango, Clayton O., Murdoch, David R., Nokes, D. James, Scott, J. Anthony G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30038420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29119-w

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30038420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29119-w

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