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How Many is Enough? Will Conjugated Pneumococcal Vaccines With More Serotypes and Fewer Doses Work Better?

Low diversity of foot-and-mouth disease serotype C virus in Kenya: evidence for probable vaccine strain re-introductions in the field.

Slaughterhouse pigs are a major reservoir of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 capable of causing human infection in southern Vietnam.

[Rotavirus prevalence in children with acute gastroenteritis and the distribution of serotypes and electropherotypes].

[Evolution of the molecular characterization profile of salmonellosis: the experience of Sardinia, Italy, 1994-2009].

Genomic characterization of Haemophilus parasuis SH0165, a highly virulent strain of serovar 5 prevalent in China.

[Comparison and evaluation of the Binax EIA and Biotest EIA urinary antigen kits for detection of Legionella pneumophila antigen in urine samples].

[Genetic characteristics of Neisseria meningitidis strains obtained from healthy carriers during meningococcal infection outbreaks].

Genetic characterization of vaccine and field strains of serotype A foot-and-mouth disease virus from India.

Virulence of serotype M3 Group A Streptococcus strains in wax worms (Galleria mellonella larvae).

[Evaluation of usefulness of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of antibodies to lipopolysaccharides of VTEC strains in patients suspected for Escherichia coli O104:H4 infection in Poland].

Expression and characterization of bluetongue virus serotype 21 VP7 antigen: C-terminal truncated protein has significantly reduced antigenicity.

Nonpolio enterovirus and human parechovirus surveillance --- United States, 2006-2008.

Prevention of pneumococcal disease among infants and children - use of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine - recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

A review of hepatitis viral infections in Pakistan.

Increased risk of invasive pneumococcal disease in haematological and solid-organ malignancies.

Subtypes and variants of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: local and temporal changes in Germany 2003-2006 and absence of a correlation between the genotype in the respiratory tract and the occurrence of genotype-specific antibodies in the sera of infected patients.

A systematic review of outbreak and non-outbreak studies of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli causing community-acquired infections.

Population-based surveillance study of Campylobacter infections in Finland.

Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a supermarket mist machine.