Epidemiology, antibiotic susceptibility, and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae associated with invasive pneumococcal disease in British Columbia - A call to strengthen public health pneumococcal immunization programs

Mark Bigham,David M. Patrick,Elizabeth Bryce,Sylvie Champagne,Carol Shaw,Wrency Wu,Helen Ng,Diane Roscoe,Jacques Roy,Judy Isaac-Renton

Epidemiology, antibiotic susceptibility, and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae associated with invasive pneumococcal disease in British Columbia - A call to strengthen public health pneumococcal immunization programs

2003

Mark Bigham
David M. Patrick
Elizabeth Bryce
Sylvie Champagne
Carol Shaw
Wrency Wu
Helen Ng
Diane Roscoe
Jacques Roy
Judy Isaac-Renton

BACKGROUND: This study examined the epidemiology, antibiotic susceptibility and serotype distribution of Streptococcuspneumoniae associated with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in British Columbia.

Keywords:

Intensive care medicine
Serotype
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Antibiotics
Epidemiology
Disease
Immunology
Public health
Medicine
pneumococcal disease

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