Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children: Changing Serotypes and Clinical Expression of Disease
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- 15 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 41 (12) , 1821-1822
- https://doi.org/10.1086/498316
Abstract
Sir—In a recent article, Byington et al. [1] provided an interesting analysis of the temporal trends in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) before and after the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7).Keywords
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