Article
Vaccination can drive an increase in frequencies of antibiotic resistance among non-vaccine serotypes of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>
2017-05-09
Abstract excerpt
The bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major public health concern, being responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths annually through pneumonia, meningitis and septicemia. In spite of vaccination efforts, pneumococcal carriage and disease remain high, since available vaccines target only a subset of serotypes and vaccination is often accompanied by a rise in non-vaccine serotypes. Epidemiological s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4a82c63c-60e4-55f9-a3fd-fbcfbe1190d0
- DOI
- 10.1101/135863
