Prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children 7 to 14 years in 2016: A survey before pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in Iran

• Main Authors: Manoochehr Karami (Author), Seyed Mehdi Hosseini (Author), Seyyed Hamid Hashemi (Author), Sima Ghiasvand (Author), Omid Zarei (Author), Nasim Safari (Author), Hossein Erfani (Author), Mohammad Yousef Alikhani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia, meningitis, and otitis media in children. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae among children in the city of Hamadan, west of Iran. In this cross-sectio...