High-density Bacterial Nasal Carriage in Children Is Transient and Associated With Respiratory Viral Infections—Implications for Transmission Dynamics

Background:This longitudinal study describes the associations between respiratory viral infections, rhinitis and the prevalence and density of the common nasopharyngeal bacterial colonizers, Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp), Moraxella catarrhalis (Mc), Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) and Staphylococcus aur