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Dried blood spots for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae detection and serotyping among children < 5 years old in rural Mozambique
- Source :
- BMC Pediatrics, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020), BMC Pediatrics
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background Dried blood spots (DBS) have been proposed as potentially tool for detecting invasive bacterial diseases. Methods We evaluated the use of DBS for S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae detection among children in Mozambique. Blood for DBS and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs were collected from children with pneumonia and healthy aged
- Subjects :
- Serotype
Colonization
Haemophilus Infections
030231 tropical medicine
Dried blood spot
medicine.disease_cause
Pneumococcal Infections
Microbiology
Haemophilus influenzae
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nasopharynx
Streptococcus pneumoniae
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Serotyping
Dried blood
Child
Mozambique
Aged
business.industry
lcsh:RJ1-570
Infant
lcsh:Pediatrics
Pneumonia
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
surgical procedures, operative
nervous system
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Carrier State
Detection rate
business
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14712431
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Pediatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....349a2b5be3015f4d8c7399e9e814e907
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02209-3