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Decreasing incidence and changes in serotype distribution of invasive pneumococcal disease in persons aged under 18 years since introduction of 10-valent and 13-valent conjugate vaccines in Portugal, July 2008 to June 2012

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Direct Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae Capsular Types in Pleural Fluids by Using Multiplex PCR Combined with Automated Fluorescence-Based Capillary Electrophoresis

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Surveillance of pneumococcal serotype 1 carriage during an outbreak of serotype 1 invasive pneumococcal disease in central Australia 2010–2012

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Serotype 3 is a common serotype causing invasive pneumococcal disease in children less than 5 years old, as identified by real-time PCR

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Analysis of Invasiveness of Pneumococcal Serotypes and Clones Circulating in Portugal before Widespread Use of Conjugate Vaccines Reveals Heterogeneous Behavior of Clones Expressing the Same Serotype

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Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal carriage with high heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage in Central Greece

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

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Association of Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae with Age in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

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Multiple Colonization with S. pneumoniae before and after Introduction of the Seven-Valent Conjugated Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine

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Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain Cocolonization in the Nasopharynx

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Age-Specific Cluster of Cases of Serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage in Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia

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Identification of pneumococcal serotypes from culture-negative clinical specimens by novel real-time PCR

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Emergence of a serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage colonising healthy children in Portugal in the seven-valent conjugate vaccination era

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