Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children aged two to five years old in the conjugate vaccine era: A cross-sectional study in Salvador, Brazil

• Isabela Oliveira Sousa,

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

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0430-3521

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• João Lucas Pinheiro Leite,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0479-9852

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• Amanda Oliveira dos Santos Melo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Adriano Souza Santos Monteiro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6675-4217

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• Carolina Ferreira Cavalcanti Xavier,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Valmira de Jesus Santos,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Ana Paula Silva de Lemos,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Bacteriology, National Laboratory for Meningitis and Invasive Pneumococcal Infections, Institute Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7205-576X

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• Samanta Cristine Grassi Almeida,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Bacteriology, National Laboratory for Meningitis and Invasive Pneumococcal Infections, Institute Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0714-8142

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• Ana Paula de Oliveira Menezes,

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

  Affiliation State University of Bahia (UNEB), Cabula, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Soraia Machado Cordeiro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Joice Neves Reis

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

  * E-mail: joice@ufba.br

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5273-2658

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