Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Pneumococcal Pediatric Serotypes: A Risk for Acute and Recurrent Otitis Media in Children and for Invasive Disease in Susceptible Adults | Zendy

Keith Klugman | Zendy; Kerry J. Welsh | Zendy

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Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Pneumococcal Pediatric Serotypes: A Risk for Acute and Recurrent Otitis Media in Children and for Invasive Disease in Susceptible Adults

Author(s) -

Keith Klugman,

Kerry J. Welsh

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

the journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 252

eISSN - 1537-6613

pISSN - 0022-1899

DOI - 10.1086/429924

Subject(s) - carriage , medicine , otitis , serotype , streptococcus pneumoniae , pneumococcal disease , pediatrics , acute otitis media , disease , pneumococcal infections , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , pathology , surgery , antibiotics

[ 1 ]. Various studies have linked pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization with increased risk of acute and recurrent otitis media [2-5]. In this issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Libson et al. [6] extend these observations to show that children in whom pneumococci have been eradicated from the middle ear yet who continue to harbor pneumococci in the nasopharynx at the end of antibiotic treatment are at in-

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