Prevalence and Homology of the Pneumococcal Serine-Rich Repeat Protein at the Global Scale

ABSTRACT Pneumococcal pneumonia remains a WHO high-priority disease despite multivalent conjugate vaccines administered in clinical practice worldwide. A protein-based, serotype-independent vaccine has long-promised comprehensive coverage of most clinical isolates of the pneumococcus. Along with num...

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Main Authors: Javid Aceil, Aarya Venkat, Eric Pan, Natarajan Kannan, Fikri Y. Avci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03252-22