Molecular epidemiology of pneumococci obtained from Gambian children aged 2-29 months with invasive pneumococcal disease during a trial of a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Antonio, Martin ^a   Dada Adegbola, Hannah ^a   Biney, Ekow ^a   Awine, Tim ^a   O'Callaghan, John ^a   Pfluger, Valentin ^b   Enwere, Godwin ^a   Okoko, Brown ^a   Oluwalana, Claire ^a   Vaughan, Adeola ^a   Zaman, Syed M A ^a   Pluschke, Gerd ^b   Greenwood, Brian M ^c   Cutts, Felicity ^a   Adegbola, Richard A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; GAMBIA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ALLELE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEROTYPING;

ALLELES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GAMBIA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 46849112263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-81     Document Type: Article

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