Hospital-based surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease among young children in urban Nepal

Background. <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> is a leading cause of pneumonia and meningitis in young children. Before implementation of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in developing countries, there is an urgent need to provide regional epidemiological data on pneumococcal disease am...

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Main Authors: Williams, E, Thorson, S, Maskey, M, Mahat, S, Hamaluba, M, Dongol, S, Werno, A, Yadav, B, Shah, A, Kelly, D, Adhikari, N, Pollard, A, Murdoch, D
Outros autores: Infectious Diseases Society of America
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: University of Chicago Press 2009
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