International genomic definition of pneumococcal lineages, to contextualise disease, antibiotic resistance and vaccine impact

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Background Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have reduced the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease, caused by vaccine serotypes, but non-vaccine-serotypes remain a concern. We used whole genome sequencing to study pneumococcal serotype, antibiotic resistance and invasiveness, in the context of genetic background. Methods Our dataset of 13,454 genomes, combined with four published genomic datasets, represented...

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