Pneumococcal colonisation following influenza infection

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 6444-6445

  Ridda, I ^a,b   Seale, H ^b   Katelaris, A L ^b   Heywood, A E ^b   Tan, T C ^c   MacIntyre, C R ^a,b   Dwyer, D E ^c,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY TITER; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LETTER; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80051664430     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.04.047     Document Type: Letter

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