Effect of Vaccination on Pneumococci Isolated from the Nasopharynx of Healthy Children and the Middle Ear of Children with Otitis Media in Iceland
Quirk SJ., Haraldsson G., Erlendsdóttir H., Hjálmarsdóttir MÁ., van Tonder AJ., Hrafnkelsson B., Sigurdsson S., Bentley SD., Haraldsson Á., Brueggemann AB., Kristinsson KG.
Vaccination with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) disrupts the pneumococcal population. Our aim was to determine the impact of the 10-valent PCV on the serotypes, genetic lineages, and antimicrobial susceptibility of pneumococci isolated from children in Iceland.