Carriage of penicillin-non-susceptible pneumococci among children in northern Tanzania in the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine era

Carriage of penicillin-non-susceptible pneumococci among children in northern Tanzania in the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine era

Objectives: To determine the antibiotic susceptibility and serotype distribution of colonizing Streptococcus pneumoniae in Tanzanian children. Serial cross-sectional surveys were performed following the national introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in December 2012. M...

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Main Authors: Matilda Emgård, Sia E. Msuya, Balthazar M. Nyombi, Dominic Mosha, Lucia Gonzales-Siles, Rickard Nordén, Shadi Geravandi, Victor Mosha, Josefine Blomqvist, Sofie Franzén, Fredrika Sahlgren, Rune Andersson, Susann Skovbjerg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219300463

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