High residual carriage of vaccine-serotype Streptococcus pneumoniae after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Malawi

Autor: Todd D. Swarthout, Claudio Fronterre, José Lourenço, Uri Obolski, Andrea Gori, Naor Bar-Zeev, Dean Everett, Arox W. Kamng’ona, Thandie S. Mwalukomo, Andrew A. Mataya, Charles Mwansambo, Marjory Banda, Sunetra Gupta, Peter Diggle, Neil French, Robert S. Heyderman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15786-9
Popis: Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) in controlling carriage needs to be evaluated to inform vaccine policy. Here, Swarthout et al. show in a prospective rolling cross-sectional study in Malawi a high residual prevalence of vaccine-serotype S. pneumoniae 7 years after PCV introduction.
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