High residual carriage of vaccine-serotype Streptococcus pneumoniae after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Malawi

High residual carriage of vaccine-serotype Streptococcus pneumoniae after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Malawi

Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) in controlling carriage needs to be evaluated to inform vaccine policy. Here, Swarthout et al. show in a prospective rolling cross-sectional study in Malawi a high residual prevalence of vaccine-serotype S. pneumoniae 7 years after PCV introduction.

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Main Authors: Todd D. Swarthout, Claudio Fronterre, José Lourenço, Uri Obolski, Andrea Gori, Naor Bar-Zeev, Dean Everett, Arox W. Kamng’ona, Thandie S. Mwalukomo, Andrew A. Mataya, Charles Mwansambo, Marjory Banda, Sunetra Gupta, Peter Diggle, Neil French, Robert S. Heyderman
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ae7ea6f71d874cce94b21be785b45e8c
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