Asymptomatic carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae detected by qPCR on the palm of hands of populations in rural Senegal

• Codou Ndiaye,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU-Mediterranée Infection, Marseille, France, UMR VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de l’IRD, Dakar, Senegal

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• Hubert Bassene,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de l’IRD, Dakar, Senegal

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• Jean-Christophe Lagier,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU-Mediterranée Infection, Marseille, France

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• Didier Raoult,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU-Mediterranée Infection, Marseille, France

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• Cheikh Sokhna

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cheikh.sokhna@ird.fr

  Affiliations Aix-Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, UMR Vecteurs-,InfectionsTropicales et Mediterranéennes (VITROME), Marseille, France, UMR VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de l’IRD, Dakar, Senegal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-8232

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