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Five winters of pneumococcal serotype replacement in UK carriage following PCV introduction.
Vaccine - 21 Apr 2015
Gladstone Rebecca A, Jefferies Johanna M, Tocheva Anna S, Beard Kate R, Garley David, Chong Wei Wei, Bentley Stephen D, Faust Saul N, Clarke Stuart C
Abstract excerpt
The seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was added to the UK national immunisation programme in September 2006. PCV13 replaced PCV7 in April 2010. As carriage precedes disease cases this study collected carried pneumococci from children each winter from 2006/7 to 2010/11 over PCV introduction. Conventional microbiology and whole genome sequencing were utilised to characterise pneumococcal strains....
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