Field Evaluation of Culture plus Latex Sweep Serotyping for Detection of Multiple Pneumococcal Serotype Colonisation in Infants and Young Children

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Paul Turner, Claudia Turner, Auscharee Jankhot, Kawalee Phakaudom, Francois Nosten, David Goldblatt
• مؤلفون آخرون: Shoklo Malaria Research Unit
• التنسيق: مقال
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/31008

Background:Nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) culture by World Health Organisation (WHO) methodology underestimates multiple pneumococcal serotype colonisation compared to a simple culture and latex sweep method. The impacts of this on descriptions of pneumococcal serotype distributions and colonisation dyna...