Pneumococcal Serotypes Colonise the Nasopharynx in Children at Different Densities

Prevalence of pneumococcal serotypes in carriage and disease has been described but absolute serotype colonisation densities have not been reported. 515 paediatric nasal swab DNA extracts were subjected to lytA qPCR and molecular serotyping by microarray. Absolute serotype densities were derived fro...

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Main Authors: Rodrigues, Fernanda, Danon, Leon, Morales-Aza, Begonia, Sikora, Paulina, Thors, Valtyr, Ferreira, Muriel, Gould, Katherine, Hinds, Jason, Finn, Adam
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042462/