Publications

Estimating rates of carriage acquisition and clearance and competitive ability for pneumococcal serotypes in Kenya with a Markov transition model.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Abdullahi O, DʼAmour A, Xie W, Weinberger DM, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Scott JA|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 22441543| July 2012

There are more than 90 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, with varying biologic and epidemiologic properties. Animal studies suggest that carriage…