Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (Apr 2019)

Pediatric cases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 3

  • Aslinur Ozkaya-Parlakay,
  • Meltem Polat,
  • Belgin Gulhan,
  • Saliha Kanik-Yuksek,
  • Hasan Tezer,
  • Selin Nar-Otgun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2018.1554975
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 4
pp. 873 – 873

Abstract

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Streptococcus pneumoniae causes invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), leading to high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although nonvaccine serotypes constitute a major issue in the aspect of invasive pneumococcal disease, serotypes included in PCV13 still continue to be a problem. Vaccination with very high coverage and multicenter surveillance studies would be beneficial to decrease carriage of vaccine and nonvaccine serotypes of pneumococcus and monitor changing seroepidemiology.

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