Seasonality of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in rural gambia determined within the context of a cluster randomized pneumococcal vaccine trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Bojang, Abdoulie ^a   Jafali, James ^a   Egere, Uzochukwu E ^a   Hill, Phillip C ^a,b   Antonio, Martin ^a   Jeffries, David ^a   Greenwood, Brian M ^c   Roca, Anna ^a  

^a Medical Research Council Unit   (Gambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMBIA; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NOSE SMEAR; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; VACCINATION; CLASSIFICATION; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RISK FACTOR; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HEPTAVALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEROGROUP; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 84938878634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129649     Document Type: Article

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