Reduction of nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci during the second year of life by a heptavalent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1271-1278

  Dagan, Ron ^a   Melamed, Rimma ^b   Muallem, Marie ^b   Piglansky, Lolita ^b   Greenberg, David ^b   Abramson, Oren ^b   Mendelman, Paul M ^b   Bohidar, Norman ^b   Yagupsky, Pablo ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BINDING KINETICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NASOPHARYNX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0029828246     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.6.1271     Document Type: Article

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