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Carried pneumococci in Massachusetts children: the contribution of clonal expansion and serotype switching.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal - 1 Apr 2011
Hanage William P, Bishop Cynthia J, Huang Susan S, Stevenson Abbie E, Pelton Stephen I, Lipsitch Marc, Finkelstein Jonathan A
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BACKGROUND: Vaccination against 7 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae has led to the near extinction of vaccine serotypes in both disease and asymptomatic carriage. In carriage, vaccine serotypes have been replaced by nonvaccine serotypes. METHODS: We used multilocus sequence typing to analyze...
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