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- Title
Effect of community-wide conjugate pneumococcal vaccine use in infancy on nasopharyngeal carriage through 3 years of age: a cross-sectional study in a high-risk population.
- Authors
Millar, Eugene V; O'Brien, Katherine L; Watt, James P; Bronsdon, Melinda A; Dallas, Jean; Whitney, Cynthia G; Reid, Raymond; Santosham, Mathuram
- Abstract
A 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PnCRM7) has been shown to be highly effective in preventing invasive pneumococcal disease. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines also protect against nasopharyngeal carriage of vaccine serotypes, but the duration of protection against nasopharyngeal carriage is not known.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1086/504802