Nasopharyngeal bacterial load as a marker for rapid and easy diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal disease in children from Mozambique

• Pedro Brotons ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pedro Brotons, Quique Bassat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Share co-primary authorship

  Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Department, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, University Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Quique Bassat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pedro Brotons, Quique Bassat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ Share co-primary authorship

  Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique, ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Miguel Lanaspa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain

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• Desiree Henares,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, University Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

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• Amaresh Perez-Arguello,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, University Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

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• Lola Madrid,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain

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• Reyes Balcells,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain

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• Sozinho Acacio,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain

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• Maria Andres-Franch,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Department, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, University Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Maria Angeles Marcos,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Ana Valero-Rello,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Department, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, University Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Carmen Muñoz-Almagro

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cma@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org

  Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Department, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, University Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, School of Medicine, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5586-404X

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