Carriage of penicillin-non-susceptible pneumococci among children in northern Tanzania in the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine era

In the era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs), Streptococcus pneumoniae, or the pneumococcus, remains an important cause of bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis in children (Wahl et al., 2018). Nasopharyngeal colonization with pneumococci is most common in preschool children; it precedes infection and enables horizontal spread of the bacteria (Bogaert et al., 2004). Children in low-income countries have the highest burden of colonization, which may be due to higher exposure to risk factors such as crowding (Abdullahi et al., 2012).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - January 23, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Matilda Emg ård, Sia E. Msuya, Balthazar M. Nyombi, Dominic Mosha, Lucia Gonzales-Siles, Rickard Nordén, Shadi Geravandi, Victor Mosha, Josefine Blomqvist, Sofie Franzén, Fredrika Sahlgren, Rune Andersson, Susann Skovbjerg Source Type: research