Systematic Evaluation of Serotypes Causing Invasive Pneumococcal Disease among Children Under Five: The Pneumococcal Global Serotype Project
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- 5 October 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (10) , e1000348
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000348
Abstract
Approximately 800,000 children die each year due to pneumococcal disease and >90% of these deaths occur in developing countries where few children have access to life-saving serotype-based vaccines. Understanding the serotype epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among children is necessary for vaccine development and introduction policies. The aim of this study was to systematically estimate the global and regional distributions of serotypes causing IPD in children Please see later in the article for the Editors' SummaryKeywords
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