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Population genomics of post-vaccine changes in pneumococcal epidemiology.
Nature genetics - 1 Jun 2013
Croucher Nicholas J, Finkelstein Jonathan A, Pelton Stephen I, Mitchell Patrick K, Lee Grace M, Parkhill Julian, Bentley Stephen D, Hanage William P, Lipsitch Marc
Abstract excerpt
Whole-genome sequencing of 616 asymptomatically carried Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates was used to study the impact of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Comparison of closely related isolates showed the role of transformation in facilitating capsule switching to non-vaccine serotypes and the emergence of drug resistance. However, such recombination was found to occur at significantly different rates...
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