Early signals of vaccine driven perturbation seen in pneumococcal carriage population genomic data
Chrispin Chaguza, Ellen Heinsbroek, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Terence Tafatatha, Maaike Alaerts, Chikondi Peno, Jennifer Cornick, Patrick Musicha, Naor Bar‐Zeev, Arox Wadson Kamng’ona, Aras Kadioglu, Lesley McGee, William Paul Hanage, Robert F. Breiman, Robert S. Heyderman, , Stephen D. Bentley
This paper analyzes pneumococcal carriage genomic data before and after PCV13 introduction, showing reduced vaccine-type strains and limited serotype replacement.
Clinical Infectious Diseases · May 15, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics