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Grijalva CG, Griffin MR, Edwards KM, Williams JV, Gil AI, Verastegui H, Hartinger SM, Vidal JE, Klugman KP, Lanata CF. The role of influenza and parainfluenza infections in nasopharyngeal pneumococcal acquisition among young children. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2014 May;58(58). 1369-76.
Abstract
Animal models suggest that influenza infection favors nasopharyngeal acquisition of pneumococci. We assessed this relationship with influenza and other respiratory viruses in young children.