Pneumococcal serotypes and serogroups causing invasive disease in Pakistan, 2005-2013.

While pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have been implemented in most countries worldwide, use in Asia has lagged in part because of a lack of data on the amount of disease that is vaccine preventable in the region. We describe pneumococcal serotypes elicited from 111 episodes of invasive pneumococcal...

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Main Authors: Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Asif R Khowaja, Shahida M Qureshi, Fyezah Jehan, Farah Qamar, Cynthia G Whitney, Anita K M Zaidi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4043782?pdf=render