The dynamics of nasopharyngeal streptococcus pneumoniae carriage among rural Gambian mother-infant pairs

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Darboe, Momodou K ^a   Fulford, Anthony J C ^a   Secka, Ousman ^a   Prentice, Andrew M ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER; NASOPHARYNX; NEWBORN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SEROTYPING; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MOTHERS; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77955114071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-195     Document Type: Article

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