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2210. Nasopharyngeal Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Clinical Disease Severity in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common pyogenic bacteria associated with CAP in children, but the proportion of cases might be underestimated because of the low sensitivity of current standard diagnostic methods. Nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage of pneumococcus commonly precedes the dev...

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Autores principales: Wook Yun, Ki, Juergensen, Alexis, Wallihan, Rebecca, Desai, Ankita P, Alter, Sherman J, Ambroggio, Lilliam, El-Assal, Osama, Marzec, Sarah, Florin, Todd A, Keaton, Meghan, Shah, Samir S, Leber, Amy, Mejias, Asuncion, Ramilo, Octavio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810270/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1888