Population genetic structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Kilifi, Kenya, prior to the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

Population genetic structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Kilifi, Kenya, prior to the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

The 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) was introduced in Kenya in 2011. Introduction of any PCV will perturb the existing pneumococcal population structure, thus the aim was to genotype pneumococci collected in Kilifi before PCV10.Using multilocus sequence typing (MLST), we genotyped &...

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Main Authors: Angela B Brueggemann, Beth Mbesu Muroki, Benard W Kulohoma, Angela Karani, Eva Wanjiru, Susan Morpeth, Tatu Kamau, Shahnaaz Sharif, J Anthony G Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3839905?pdf=render

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