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Population genomics of pneumococcal strains from a high disease African setting

2018-01-01

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Streptococcus pneumoniae, the pneumococcus, is an α-haemolytic pathogenic bacterium, which kills over one million children and causes over fifteen million disease episodes annually globally. While mild forms of pneumococcal infections are common, other forms invasive disease are life-threatening such as pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. Globally, the pneumococcal disease burden is especially high in low-income cou...

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DOI: 10.17638/03021588

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