The impact of childhood vaccines on bacterial carriage in the nasopharynx: A longitudinal study

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bottomley, Christian ^a   Bojang, Abdoulie ^b   Smith, Peter G ^a   Darboe, Ousainou ^b   Antonio, Martin ^b   Foster Nyarko, Ebenezer ^b   Kampmann, Beate ^b   Greenwood, Brian ^a   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^b   Roca, Anna ^b  

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

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

DTP; Measles; Nasopharyngeal bacterial carriage; Non specific vaccine effects

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CARRIAGE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMBIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; VACCINATION;

EID: 84988826746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12982-014-0022-3     Document Type: Article

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