Author(s): Weinberger DM, Harboe ZB, Flasche S, Scott JA, Lipsitch M|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID:21646962| March 2011
Before the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar-7), the relative prevalence of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae was fairly…
Author(s): Weinberger DM, Harboe ZB, Sanders EA, Ndiritu M, Klugman KP, Rückinger S, Dagan R, Adegbola R, Cutts F, Johnson HL, O'Brien KL, Scott JA, Lipsitch M|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID:20715907| September 2010
The 92 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae differ greatly in nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence, invasiveness, and disease incidence. There has been…