Modelling multi-type transmission of pneumococcal carriage in Bangladeshi families

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 861-872

  Erasto P ^a   Hoti, F ^b   Granat, S M ^a   Mia, Z ^a   Makela P H ^a   Auranen, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Gonoshasthaya Vaccine Research Laboratory   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Developing country; Pneumococcus; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952531684     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809991415     Document Type: Article

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