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(2012) Sang-Uk Seo et al.   VACCINE

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(2011) Gail L. Rodgers et al.   VACCINE

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(2010) Janet Yother   Annual Review of Microbiology

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(2009) Jeffrey N. Weiser   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

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(2008) Sandra I Aguiar et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Novel Approaches to the Identification ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeas the Cause of Community‐Acquired Pneumonia

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