Association of serotype with risk of death due to pneumococcal pneumonia: a meta-analysis

The 92 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae differ greatly in nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence, invasiveness, and disease incidence. There has been some debate, though, regarding whether serotype independently affects the outcome of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Published studies...

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Published in:	Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 51; no. 6; p. 692
Main Authors:	Weinberger, Daniel M, Harboe, Zitta B, Sanders, Elisabeth A M, Ndiritu, Moses, Klugman, Keith P, Rückinger, Simon, Dagan, Ron, Adegbola, Richard, Cutts, Felicity, Johnson, Hope L, O'Brien, Katherine L, Scott, J Anthony, Lipsitch, Marc
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 15.09.2010
Subjects:	Bacterial Typing Techniques Humans Meningitis, Pneumococcal - epidemiology Meningitis, Pneumococcal - microbiology Meningitis, Pneumococcal - mortality Mortality Pneumonia, Pneumococcal - epidemiology Pneumonia, Pneumococcal - microbiology Pneumonia, Pneumococcal - mortality Risk Assessment Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae - classification Streptococcus pneumoniae - pathogenicity
ISSN:	1537-6591, 1537-6591
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