Nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in healthy Turkish children after 13-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine implementation in the national immunization program

• Main Authors: Saliha Kanık Yüksek (Author), Hasan Tezer (Author), Belgin Gülhan (Author), Aslınur Özkaya Parlakay (Author), Dilek Güldemir (Author), F. Filiz Coskun-Ari (Author), Tuğba Bedir Demirdağ (Author), Aysun Kara Uzun (Author), Murat Kızılgün (Author), Sinem Solmaz (Author), Selçuk Kılıç (Author), Meltem Yalınay Çırak (Author), Fatma Nur Baran Aksakal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In Turkey, pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV) was introduced to the national immunization program as PCV7 in 2008, and was replaced with PCV13 in 2011. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of PCV13 on nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage (NPC) by determining the sero...