Underlying factors in paediatric invasive pneumococcal disease in Belgium - Authors' reply

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¹ National Reference Centre for Streptococcus Pneumoniae, University Hospitals Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: stefanie.desmet@uzleuven.be.
² National Reference Centre for Streptococcus Pneumoniae, University Hospitals Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Unité de Maladies Infectieuses Pédiatriques, Brussels, Belgium.

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Stefanie Desmet et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;21(2):170.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30940-3.

¹ National Reference Centre for Streptococcus Pneumoniae, University Hospitals Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: stefanie.desmet@uzleuven.be.
² National Reference Centre for Streptococcus Pneumoniae, University Hospitals Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Unité de Maladies Infectieuses Pédiatriques, Brussels, Belgium.

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Dynamic changes in paediatric invasive pneumococcal disease after sequential switches of conjugate vaccine in Belgium: a national retrospective observational study.
Desmet S, Lagrou K, Wyndham-Thomas C, Braeye T, Verhaegen J, Maes P, Fieuws S, Peetermans WE, Blumental S. Desmet S, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Jan;21(1):127-136. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30173-0. Epub 2020 Jul 20. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021. PMID: 32702303
Underlying factors in paediatric invasive pneumococcal disease in Belgium.
Izurieta P, Scherbakov M, Vetter V. Izurieta P, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;21(2):169-170. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30867-7. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021. PMID: 33515517 No abstract available.