Should Pneumococcal Vaccines Eliminate Nasopharyngeal Colonization?
Streptococcus pneumoniae remains an important human pathogen. For more than 100 years, there have been vaccine efforts to prevent pneumococcal infection. The pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have significantly reduced invasive disease. However, these vaccines have changed pneumococcal ecology within...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-05-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/e00545-16 |