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School-aged children: a reservoir for continued circulation of Haemophilus influenzae Type b in the United Kingdom
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Background: A resurgence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease occurred in the United Kingdom between 1999 and 2003 and was partially attributed to lower immunogenicity of combination vaccines. The reservoir for Hib that led to transmission in this period is unknown. Methods: We estimated the point prevalence of Hib carriage in school-aged children and adults, using oropharyngeal swabbing and selective media. We characterized the Hib isolates by multilocus sequence typing (M...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 197
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 1275-1281
- Publication date:
- 2008-05-01
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- ISSN:
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0022-1899
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3047
- Deposit date:
- 2009-11-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- Citation: Oh, S. Y. et al. (2008). 'School-aged children: a reservoir for continued circulation of Haemophilus influenzae Type b in the United Kingdom', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 197(9), 1275-1281. [Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jid/current].
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