Muhammad Imran Nisar, Shahira Shahid, Fyezah Jehan, Sheraz Ahmed, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Munir, Farah Khalid, Sajid Muhammad, Cynthia G Whitney, Asad Ali, Anita K M Zaidi, Saad B Omer, Najeeha Iqbal
Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging public health concern. Ten-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV10) was introduced in Pakistan's Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in 2012 as a 3 + 0 schedule without catchup. From 2014 to 2018, children <2 years were randomly selected in two rural union councils of Matiari, Pakistan. Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected using standard WHO guidelines by trained staff and processed at Infectious Disease Research Laboratory at The Aga Khan University, Karachi using culture on sheep blood agar and Multiplex PCR methods described by CDC, USA...
December 22, 2021: Microbiology Spectrum