Pneumococcal Serotypes Causing Pneumonia with Pleural Effusion in Pediatric Patients

Serotypes 1, 7F and 19A became the leading causes of pediatric invasive pneumococcal infections in Portugal after 7 years of heptavalent conjugate vaccine use

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How Bacterial Carbohydrates Influence the Adaptive Immune System

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Molecular Epidemiology of Pediatric Pneumococcal Empyema from 2001 to 2007 in Utah

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Identification of natural pneumococcal isolates expressing serotype 6D by genetic, biochemical and serological characterization

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Continued Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Carriage in Young Children

(2009) S. S. Huang et al.   PEDIATRICS

Complicated community acquired pneumonia in children prior to the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugated vaccine

(2009) Aviv D. Goldbart et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Global serotype distribution among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates causing otitis media in children: Potential implications for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines

(2009) Gail L. Rodgers et al.   VACCINE

Empyema associated with community-acquired pneumonia: A Pediatric Investigator's Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study

(2008) Joanne M Langley et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Type I Streptococcus pneumoniae carbohydrate utilizes a nitric oxide and MHC II-dependent pathway for antigen presentation

(2008) Christopher D. Velez et al.   IMMUNOLOGY

A rapid pneumococcal serotyping system based on monoclonal antibodies and PCR

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