Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in the Gambia: Population-based cross-sectional surveys

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Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in the Gambia: Population-based cross-sectional surveys

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•Vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage in young and older children declined significantly following routine use of PCV in The Gambia.•Significant residual vaccine-type carriage in children.•Non-vaccine-type carriage increased in all age groups.•Significant pneumococcal transmission continues in the population. The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) has reduced carriage of vaccine-type (VT) pneumococci in many settings. We determined the impact of The Gambia’s national PCV prog...

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2024-04-11

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Mackenzie, Grant A / Hossain, Ilias / Salaudeen, Rasheed / Badji, Henry / Manjang, Ahmed / Usuf, Effua / Bottomley, Christian / Greenwood, Brian / Hill, Philip C

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/40287

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Carriage / Impact / Pneumococcal / Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine / Survey

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