Epidemiological and clinical features of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by serotype 12F in adults, Japan.

Epidemiological and clinical features of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by serotype 12F in adults, Japan.

Enhanced surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in adults was conducted during April 2013-March 2018 in 10 of 47 prefectures in Japan, and a total of 1277 IPD patients were enrolled. An emergence of IPD caused by serotype 12F was identified during May 2015-March 2018 through this survei...

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Main Authors: Reiko Shimbashi, Bin Chang, Yoshinari Tanabe, Hiroaki Takeda, Hiroshi Watanabe, Tetsuya Kubota, Kei Kasahara, Kengo Oshima, Junichiro Nishi, Takaya Maruyama, Koji Kuronuma, Jiro Fujita, Tatsuki Ikuse, Yuki Kinjo, Motoi Suzuki, Anusak Kerdsin, Tomoe Shimada, Munehisa Fukusumi, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Tamano Matsui, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Makoto Ohnishi, Kazunori Oishi, Adult IPD Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212418

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212418

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