Pneumococcal carriage in children in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia before and one year after the introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.05.078
Abstract: BACKGROUND Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae precedes disease, is the source of pneumococcal community spread, and the mechanism for herd protection provided by pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). There are few PCV impact studies in low-… read more here.
Keywords: introduction; pcv13 serotype; one year; carriage ... See more keywords