United States: Nontypeable Pneumococcal Isolates Among Navajo And White Mountain Apache Communities - Are These Really A Cause Of Invasive Disease?

United States: Nontypeable Pneumococcal Isolates Among Navajo And White Mountain Apache Communities - Are These Really A Cause Of Invasive Disease?   Jennifer R. Scott, Jason Hinds, Katherine A. Gould, Eugene V. Millar, Raymond Reid, Mathuram Santosham, Katherine L. O'Brien, and William P. Hanage, 2012   Background: Pneumococci could evade pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) by modifying, mutating, or deleting vaccine-serotype capsule genes or by down-regulating capsule production....

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