Surveillance of pneumococcal colonization and invasive pneumococcal disease reveals shift in prevalent carriage serotypes in Massachusetts’ children to relatively low invasiveness.

Author(s): Yildirim I, Little BA, Finkelstein J, Lee G, Hanage WP, Shea K, Pelton SI, T., he Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health.Journal: VaccinePMID: 28645717 July 2017
Following the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), overall nasopharyngeal colonization rates have not changed significantly, however a dramatic and…