Nasopharyngeal colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children and adults before the introduction of the 10-valent conjugate vaccine, Paraguay

• Gustavo Chamorro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Laboratory of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, Asunción, Paraguay

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• Aníbal Kawabata,

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

  Affiliation Central Laboratory of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, Asunción, Paraguay

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3960-435X

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• María da Gloria Carvalho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Fabiana C. Pimenta,

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

  Affiliation Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Fernanda C. Lessa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Carlos Torres,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation National Program on Immunopreventable Diseases and Expanded Program on Immunizations, Asunción, Paraguay

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• María José Lerea,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation National Program on Immunopreventable Diseases and Expanded Program on Immunizations, Asunción, Paraguay

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• María Eugenia León

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

  * E-mail: maruleonayala@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Central Laboratory of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, Asunción, Paraguay

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7416-249X

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