Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes and Mortality in Adults and Adolescents in South Africa: Analysis of National Surveillance Data, 2003 - 2008

• Cheryl Cohen ,

  * E-mail: cherylc@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

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• Nireshni Naidoo,

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

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• Susan Meiring,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Linda de Gouveia,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Claire von Mollendorf,

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

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• Sibongile Walaza,

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

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• Preneshni Naicker,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Shabir A. Madhi,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Charles Feldman,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

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• Keith P. Klugman,

  Affiliation Hubert School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Halima Dawood,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

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• Anne von Gottberg,

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa

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• GERMS-SA

  ¶Membership of the GERMS-SA surveillance network is provided in the Acknowledgements.

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