The prevalence and risk factors for pneumococcal colonization of the nasopharynx among children in Kilifi District, Kenya.

BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) reduce nasopharyngeal carriage of vaccine-serotype pneumococci but increase in the carriage of non-vaccine serotypes. We studied the epidemiology of carriage among children 3-59 months old before vaccine introduction in Kilifi, Kenya. METHODS: In a r...

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Glavni autori: Abdullahi, O, Karani, A, Tigoi, C, Mugo, D, Kungu, S, Wanjiru, E, Jomo, J, Musyimi, R, Lipsitch, M, Scott, J
Format: Journal article
Jezik:English
Izdano: Public Library of Science 2012