Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence

Daniel M. Weinberger; Krzysztof Trzciński; Ying-Jie Lu; Debby Bogaert; Aaron Brandes; James Galagan; Porter W. Anderson; Richard Malley; Marc Lipsitch

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000476

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Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence

Daniel M. Weinberger ,

* E-mail: dweinber@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Krzysztof Trzciński,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Ying-Jie Lu,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Debby Bogaert,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Aaron Brandes,

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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James Galagan,

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Porter W. Anderson,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Richard Malley,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Marc Lipsitch

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence

Daniel M. Weinberger,
Krzysztof Trzciński,
Ying-Jie Lu,
Debby Bogaert,
Aaron Brandes,
James Galagan,
Porter W. Anderson,
Richard Malley,
Marc Lipsitch

Published: June 12, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000476

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