Pneumococcal carriage among children under five in Accra, Ghana, five years after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

BACKGROUND: The study objective was to determine the carriage and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae among children in Accra, Ghana, five years after the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-13) in 2012. METHODS: Nasopharyngeal swab samples were collected from 410 c...

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Autores principales: Dayie, Nicholas T. K. D., Tettey, Elizabeth Y., Newman, Mercy J., Bannerman, Elizabeth, Donkor, Eric S., Labi, Appiah-Korang, Slotved, Hans-Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31488088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1690-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31488088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1690-5

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