Clinical and Microbiological Factors Associated with High Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Density in Patients with Pneumococcal Pneumonia

• Helena Alpkvist,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Simon Athlin,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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• Pontus Nauclér,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Björn Herrmann,

  Affiliation Section of Clinical Bacteriology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Guma Abdeldaim,

  Affiliations Section of Clinical Bacteriology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya

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• Hans-Christian Slotved,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Jonas Hedlund,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Kristoffer Strålin

  * E-mail: kristoffer.stralin@ki.se

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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