Rates of acquisition and clearance of pneumococcal serotypes in the nasopharynges of children in Kilifi District, Kenya.

BACKGROUND: To understand and model the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines at the population level, we need to know the transmission dynamics of individual pneumococcal serotypes. We estimated serotype-specific clearance and acquisition rates of nasopharyngeal colonization among Kenyan childr...

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Hlavní autoři: Abdullahi, O, Karani, A, Tigoi, C, Mugo, D, Kungu, S, Wanjiru, E, Jomo, J, Musyimi, R, Lipsitch, M, Scott, J
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2012