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Genome-wide association study of susceptibility to pneumococcal carriage amongst children
2026-07-16
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of paediatric pneumonia and meningitis. Pneumococcal colonisation is the fundamental step to pneumococcal disease causation. We aimed to identify genetic loci associated with pneumococcal colonisation amongst children. <h4>Methods</h4> We conducted a genome-wide association study on 2111 Nepalese children, comprising 1346 cases carryi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e0254f32-8055-55d6-97f2-cea585e6d984
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.07.13.26356474
