Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Latin America and the Caribbean: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Martín Brizuela ,

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

  * E-mail: martin.brizuela1984@gmail.com

  Affiliation Unidad de Pediatría, Hospital General de Agudos Vélez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2113-449X

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• María Carolina Palermo,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Tomás Alconada,

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

  Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• María Macarena Sandoval,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Eugenia Ramirez Wierzbicki,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Joaquín Cantos,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Paula Gagetti,

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

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, Laboratorio Nacional de Referencia (LNR), Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)- ANLIS ‘‘Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Agustín Ciapponi,

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

  Affiliations Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas y Salud Pública (CIESP-IECS) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Ariel Bardach,

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

  Affiliations Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas y Salud Pública (CIESP-IECS) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Silvina Ruvinsky

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

  Affiliations Coordinación de Investigación. Hospital de Pediatría Dr. Juan P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias y Economía de la Salud. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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