Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype-2 childhood meningitis in bangladesh: A newly recognized pneumococcal infection threat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Saha, Samir K ^a   Al Emran, Hassan M ^a   Hossain, Belal ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^b,h   Saha, Senjuti ^c   Islam, Maksuda ^a   Chowdhury, Atique I ^d   Foster, Dona ^e   Naheed, Aliya ^d   El Arifeen, Shams ^d   Baqui, Abdullah H ^b   Qazi, Shamim A ^f   Luby, Stephen P ^d,g   Breiman, Robert F ^g   Santosham, Mathuram ^b   Black, Robert E ^b   Crook, Derrick W ^e  

^a DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^h BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MENINGITIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84859132918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032134     Document Type: Article

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