Short Vaccine Course Reduces Pneumococcal Carriage (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 07/08/2009 - 07:02

TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- A short course of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine significantly reduces carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the nasal passages of treated children, Dutch researchers said.


 

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