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Nasopharyngeal carriage of individual Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes during pediatric radiologically confirmed community acquired pneumonia following PCV7 introduction in Switzerland |
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Published in | BMC infectious diseases. 2013, vol. 13, 357 | |
Abstract | Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a serious cause of morbidity among children in developed countries. The real impact of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) on pneumococcal pneumonia is difficult to assess accurately. | |
Keywords | Adolescent — Carrier State/immunology/microbiology — Child — Child, Preschool — Community-Acquired Infections/immunology/microbiology/radiography — Female — Humans — Infant — Male — Nasopharynx/microbiology — Pneumococcal Vaccines/administration & dosage — Pneumonia, Pneumococcal/immunology/microbiology/radiography — Prospective Studies — Statistics, Nonparametric — Streptococcus pneumoniae/classification/isolation & purification | |
Identifiers | PMID: 23899390 | |
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Research group | Etiologie des pneumonies et marqueurs inflammatoires chez l'enfant fébrile (183) | |
Citation (ISO format) | CHAPPUY, Hélène et al. Nasopharyngeal carriage of individual Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes during pediatric radiologically confirmed community acquired pneumonia following PCV7 introduction in Switzerland. In: BMC infectious diseases, 2013, vol. 13, p. 357. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-357 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:35511 |