Reduction of carriage and transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae: the beneficial "side effect" of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 15;47(8):997-9. doi: 10.1086/591967.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Carrier State / epidemiology*
  • Carrier State / immunology
  • Carrier State / prevention & control*
  • Carrier State / transmission
  • Child, Preschool
  • Family Health
  • Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Meningococcal Vaccines / immunology*
  • Nasopharynx / microbiology
  • Pneumococcal Infections / epidemiology*
  • Pneumococcal Infections / immunology
  • Pneumococcal Infections / prevention & control*
  • Pneumococcal Infections / transmission
  • Pneumococcal Vaccines / immunology*
  • Prevalence
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae / immunology*
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification
  • United States / epidemiology

Substances

  • Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
  • Meningococcal Vaccines
  • Pneumococcal Vaccines