Article
Increase in prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 24 in children upon introducing 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Japan
2023-02-03
Abstract excerpt
After introducing the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) for children, a change in the prevalence of different Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes that cause invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPDs) has been observed. The prevalence of vaccine serotypes has decreased and that of non-vaccine serotypes has increased. Currently, serogroup 24 has become one of the major non-vaccine serotypes causing IPDs in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dcbc3c7d-e93f-5dd2-8942-5b69e0492925
- DOI
- 10.1099/acmi.0.000507.v2
