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SUBMITTER: Makwana A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6154145 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Makwana Ashley A Ladhani Shamez N SN Kapatai Georgia G Campion Ella E Fry Norman K NK Sheppard Carmen C
Emerging infectious diseases 20181001 10
We observed a sudden and rapid increase in rare invasive pneumococcal disease serotype 7C, from an annual average of 3 cases during 2000-01 through 2015-16 to 29 cases in 2016-17. The increase was caused almost entirely by clonal expansion of sequence type 177, previously associated with vaccine serotype 19F. ...[more]