Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Carriage among Healthy Children in Cyprus Post Widespread Simultaneous Implementation of PCV10 and PCV13 Vaccines.

The objective of the study was to describe the incidence of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage, serotype distribution and antibiotic resistance profile of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal isolates in healthy children aged 6 to 36 months following the implementation of conjugate vaccines. A nasopharynge...

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Main Authors: Adamos Hadjipanayis, Elisavet Efstathiou, Maria Alexandrou, Loukia Panayiotou, Chrystalla Zachariadou, Panayiotis Petrou, Vasiliki Papaevangelou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5051711?pdf=render