Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae Among Young Children in Haiti Before Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction.
Louise K Francois WatkinsJennifer L MiluckyLesley McGeeFlorence Siné St-SurinPengbo LiuTheresa TranSopio ChochuaGerard JosephNong ShangStanley JuinPatrick DelyRoopal PatelChris A Van BenedenPublished in: The Journal of infectious diseases (2022)
Nearly a quarter of healthy children surveyed in Haiti were colonized with vaccine-type pneumococcal serotypes. This baseline carriage study will enable estimation of vaccine impact following nationwide introduction of PCV13.
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