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The role of the blood-brain barrier during pneumococcal meningitis

2016-01-01

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Background: Pneumococcal meningitis remains the main cause of severe bacterial meningitis in children and adults (1); in February, 2010, a new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) was approved by the FDA, which was presented as a successor to the 7-valent conjugate vaccine (PCV7) (2). Nonetheless, no vaccine provides protection against more than 90 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae. In 2013, 2.8 mi...

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DOI: 10.17638/03000478

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