Changing epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease: A complicated story

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 485-486

  Black, Steven ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7 VALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE; AZITHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AMERICAN INDIAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; INVASIVE PNEUMOCCOCAL DISEASE; NOTE; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEROTYPE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION; WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFECTION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 48749114651     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590002     Document Type: Note

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