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Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases Volume 42, 2010 - Issue 4
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Invasive disease and paediatric carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Ghana

Eric S. Donkor Department of Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana; Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mercy J. Newman Department of Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
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Joseph Oliver-Commey Department of Child Health, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
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Elizabeth Bannerman Department of Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
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Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie Department of Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
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Ebenezer V. Badoe Department of Child Health, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
Pages 254-259 | Received 15 Jul 2009, Accepted 11 Nov 2009, Published online: 19 Jan 2010

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Eric S. Donkor, Jennifer A. Annan, Ebenezer V. Badoe, Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie, Appiah-Korang Labi & Hans-Christian Slotved. (2017) Pneumococcal carriage among HIV infected children in Accra, Ghana. BMC Infectious Diseases 17:1.
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Richard A. Adegbola, Rodrigo DeAntonio, Philip C. Hill, Anna Roca, Effua Usuf, Bernard Hoet & Brian M. Greenwood. (2014) Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Other Respiratory Bacterial Pathogens in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 9:8, pages e103293.
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Effua Usuf, Christian Bottomley, Richard A. Adegbola & Andrew Hall. (2014) Pneumococcal Carriage in Sub-Saharan Africa—A Systematic Review. PLoS ONE 9:1, pages e85001.
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Eric S. Donkor & Ebenezer V. Badoe. (2014) Insights into Pneumococcal Pathogenesis and Antibiotic Resistance. Advances in Microbiology 04:10, pages 627-643.
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Nicholas TKD Dayie, Reuben E Arhin, Mercy J Newman, Anders Dalsgaard, Magne Bisgaard, Niels Frimodt-Møller & Hans-Christian Slotved. (2013) Penicillin resistance and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniaein Ghanaian children less than six years of age. BMC Infectious Diseases 13:1.
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Eric S. Donkor, Richard A. Adegbola, Brendan W. Wren & Martin Antonio. (2013) Population Biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in West Africa: Multilocus Sequence Typing of Serotypes That Exhibit Different Predisposition to Invasive Disease and Carriage. PLoS ONE 8:1, pages e53925.
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Eric S Donkor, Richard A Stabler, Jason Hinds, Richard A Adegbola, Martin Antonio & Brendan W Wren. (2012) Comparative phylogenomics of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from invasive disease and nasopharyngeal carriage from West Africans. BMC Genomics 13:1.
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Eric Donkor, Patience Tetteh-Quarcoo, Patrick Nartey & Isaac Agyeman. (2012) Self-Medication Practices with Antibiotics among Tertiary Level Students in Accra, Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 9:10, pages 3519-3529.
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E. S. Donkor, C. J. Bishop, M. Antonio, B. Wren & W. P. Hanage. (2011) High Levels of Recombination among Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from the Gambia. mBio 2:3.
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