Are anticapsular antibodies the primary mechanism of protection against invasive pneumococcal disease?

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Published in PLoS Med on January 25, 2005

Authors

Marc Lipsitch1, Cynthia G Whitney, Elizabeth Zell, Tarja Kaijalainen, Ron Dagan, Richard Malley

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. mlipsitc@hsph.harvard.edu

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