Nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in healthy Turkish children after 13-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine implementation in the national immunization program.
- Kanık Yüksek, Saliha
- Tezer, Hasan
- Gülhan, Belgin
- Özkaya Parlakay, Aslınur
- Güldemir, Dilek
- Coskun-Ari, F Filiz
- Bedir Demirdağ, Tuğba
- Kara Uzun, Aysun
- Kızılgün, Murat
- Solmaz, Sinem
- Kılıç, Selçuk
- Yalınay Çırak, Meltem
- Baran Aksakal, Fatma Nur
DOIAbstract
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 serotype distribution, and to identify risk factors for carriage, in healthy Turkish children
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