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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Manoochehr Karami (लेखक), Seyed Mehdi Hosseini (लेखक), Seyyed Hamid Hashemi (लेखक), Sima Ghiasvand (लेखक), Omid Zarei (लेखक), Nasim Safari (लेखक), Hossein Erfani (लेखक), Mohammad Yousef Alikhani (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...