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- Title
Seasonal drivers of pneumococcal disease incidence: impact of bacterial carriage and viral activity.
- Authors
Weinberger, Daniel M; Grant, Lindsay R; Steiner, Claudia A; Weatherholtz, Robert; Santosham, Mathuram; Viboud, Cécile; O'Brien, Katherine L
- Abstract
Winter-seasonal epidemics of pneumococcal disease provide an opportunity to understand the drivers of incidence. We sought to determine whether seasonality of invasive pneumococcal disease is caused by increased nasopharyngeal transmission of the bacteria or increased susceptibility to invasive infections driven by cocirculating winter respiratory viruses.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2014, Vol 58, Issue 2, p188
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cit721