Serotype 1 pneumococcus: epidemiology, genomics, and disease mechanisms

Chrispin Chaguza1, Marie Yang2, Laura C Jacques2

  • 1Parasites and Microbes Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge, UK; Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Liverpool, The Ronald Ross Building, West Derby St, Liverpool, UK; NIHR Mucosal Pathogens Research Unit, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.

Trends in Microbiology
|December 24, 2021
PubMed
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