Meanings of nasopharyngeal carriage in English

Therefore, seasonal influence on the nasopharyngeal carriage of respiratory pathogens in healthy children was negligible.

The natural niche of Streptococcus pneumoniae is the nasopharyngeal mucosa and nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci is widely prevalent.

This has been used to test vaccine induced protection against nasopharyngeal carriage for ten years in over 1000 participants.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage in healthy and sick Gambian children and to investigate transmission within households.

Seasonal variations occur in the prevalence of the nasopharyngeal carriage of respiratory pathogens in healthy children attending day-care centres or schools in Italy.

This difference may be related to changes in either the mode of administration of Hib conjugate vaccines or the rates of Hib nasopharyngeal carriage.

The nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence of particular serotypes is relatively stable worldwide, but the host and bacterial factors that maintain these patterns are poorly understood.

Nasopharyngeal carriage of S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae was studied in 320 infants recruited during the first year.

Conclusions: Nasopharyngeal carriage of S. aureus is present in one-third of the Vietnamese population, and is more prevalent among children.