Epidemiology of nasopharyngeal carriage of respiratory bacterial pathogens in children and adults: cross-sectional surveys in a population with high rates of pneumococcal disease

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mackenzie, Grant A ^a,b,c   Leach, Amanda J ^a,c   Carapetis, Jonathan R ^a,c   Fisher, Janelle ^a,c   Morris, Peter S ^a,b,c,d  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE SMEAR; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RHINORRHEA; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; NASOPHARYNX; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958049683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-304     Document Type: Article

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