DNA bacterial load in children with bacteremic pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia

Comparison of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by serotype 19A and non-19A pneumococci in children: More empyema in serotype 19A invasive pneumococcal disease

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Bacteremic Pneumococcal Community-acquired Pneumonia in Children Less Than 5 Years of Age in Italy

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Effect of Serotype on Focus and Mortality of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Coverage of Different Vaccines and Insight into Non-Vaccine Serotypes

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Why should we measure bacterial load when treating community-acquired pneumonia?

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What is different about serotype 1 pneumococci?

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Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Identification of Pneumococcal Serotypes by Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Using Blood Samples from Italian Children ≤5 Years of Age with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

(2011) Anna Marchese et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Update on the causes, investigation and management of empyema in childhood

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DNA bacterial load in children and adolescents with pneumococcal pneumonia and empyema

(2010) Carmen Muñoz-Almagro et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pediatric complicated pneumonia and pneumococcal serotype replacement: trends in hospitalized children pre and post introduction of routine vaccination with Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7)

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Real-time PCR assays for the detection and quantification of Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Hee Kuk Park et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

National Hospitalization Trends for Pediatric Pneumonia and Associated Complications

(2010) G. E. Lee et al.   PEDIATRICS

Severity of Pneumococcal Pneumonia Associated With Genomic Bacterial Load

(2009) Jordi Rello et al.   CHEST

Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA Load in Blood as a Marker of Infection in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

(2009) R. P. H. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Empyema Hospitalizations Increased in US Children Despite Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

(2009) S. T. T. Li et al.   PEDIATRICS

Necrotising pneumonia is an increasingly detected complication of pneumonia in children

(2008) G. S. Sawicki et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Molecular detection methods and serotyping performed directly on clinical samples improve diagnostic sensitivity and reveal increased incidence of invasive disease by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Italian children

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