Nasopharyngeal carriage and transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in American Indian households after a decade of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine use.

Young children played a major role in pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage, acquisition, and transmission in the era before pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) use. Few studies document pneumococcal household dynamics in the routine-PCV7 era.We investigated age-specific acquisition, household intro...

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Main Authors:	Jonathan F Mosser, Lindsay R Grant, Eugene V Millar, Robert C Weatherholtz, Delois M Jackson, Bernard Beall, Mariddie J Craig, Raymond Reid, Mathuram Santosham, Katherine L O'Brien
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:	PLoS ONE
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3894936?pdf=render

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Nasopharyngeal carriage and transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in American Indian households after a decade of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine use.

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