Serogroup-specific epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Associations with age, sex, and geography in 7,000 episodes of invasive disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 973-981

  Scott, J A G ^a   Hall, A J ^b   Dagan, R ^b   Dixon, J M S ^b   Eykyn, S J ^b   Fenoll, A ^b   Hortal, M ^b   Jette, L P ^b   Jorgensen, J H ^b   Lamothe, F ^b   Latorre, C ^b   Macfarlane, J T ^b   Shlaes, D M ^b   Smart, L E ^b   Taunay, A ^b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029783747     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.6.973     Document Type: Article

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