Nasopharyngeal carriage of community-acquired, antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Zambian paediatric population.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 01, 1997

Authors

A Woolfson1, R Huebner, A Wasas, S Chola, P Godfrey-Faussett, K Klugman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, England.

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