Serotype Distribution in Non-Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia: Association with Disease Severity and Implications for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines

• Thomas Benfield ,

  * E-mail: tlb@dadlnet.dk

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Marlene Skovgaard,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Henrik Carl Schønheyder,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Jenny Dahl Knudsen,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

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• Jette Bangsborg,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark

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• Christian Østergaard,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

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• Hans-Christian Slotved,

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Helle Bossen Konradsen,

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Reimar Wernich Thomsen,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Lotte Lambertsen

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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