Article
Global emergence and population dynamics of divergent serotype 3 CC180 pneumococci
2018-05-04
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite inclusion in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13). Serotype 3 increased in carriage since the implementation of PCV13 in the United States, while invasive disease rates remain unchanged. We investigated the persistence of serotype 3 in carriage and disease, through genomic analyses of a glo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b497e861-3677-506c-9e0c-3982d9c6177b
- DOI
- 10.1101/314880
