Human Nasal Challenge with Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Immunising in the Absence of Carriage

Adam K. A. Wright; Daniela M. Ferreira; Jenna F. Gritzfeld; Angela D. Wright; Kathryn Armitage; Kondwani C. Jambo; Emily Bate; Sherouk El Batrawy; Andrea Collins; Stephen B. Gordon

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002622

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Human Nasal Challenge with Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Immunising in the Absence of Carriage

Adam K. A. Wright ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam K. A. Wright, Daniela M. Ferreira

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Microbial Diseases, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Daniela M. Ferreira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam K. A. Wright, Daniela M. Ferreira

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Jenna F. Gritzfeld,

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Angela D. Wright,

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Kathryn Armitage,

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Microbial Diseases, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Kondwani C. Jambo,

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre, Malawi
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Emily Bate,

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Sherouk El Batrawy,

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Microbial Diseases, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Andrea Collins,

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Microbial Diseases, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Stephen B. Gordon

* E-mail: sbgordon@liv.ac.uk

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Human Nasal Challenge with Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Immunising in the Absence of Carriage

Adam K. A. Wright,
Daniela M. Ferreira,
Jenna F. Gritzfeld,
Angela D. Wright,
Kathryn Armitage,
Kondwani C. Jambo,
Emily Bate,
Sherouk El Batrawy,
Andrea Collins,
Stephen B. Gordon

Published: April 5, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002622

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