Journal of Infection and Public Health
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 40-44, 2008

Nasopharyngeal carriage rate of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children with sickle cell disease before and after the introduction of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine☆

  • Ellie Alexander

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, The Blizard Building, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK
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  • Paul Telfer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatric Haematology, Royal London Hospital, London, UK
    • ,
  • Harunor Rashid

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, The Blizard Building, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 2078822615; fax: +44 2078822195.
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  • Kamal A. Ali

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, The Blizard Building, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK
    • ,
  • Robert Booy

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Child Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, The Blizard Building, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK
    • National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS), Children’s Hospital Westmead and University of Sydney, Australia

Received 12 August 2008; received in revised form 20 August 2008; accepted 21 August 2008.

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☆ Part of this study was presented at the 10th Congress of the European Hematology Association Stockholm, Sweden, June 2–5, 2005.

PII: S1876-0341(08)00006-3

doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2008.08.005

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 40-44, 2008

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