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Comment
. 2022 Sep 14;75(5):924-925.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac221.

World Health Organization (WHO) Standard Methods for Pneumococcal Carriage Studies

Paul Turner  1   2 , Raquel Sá-Leão  3 , Andrew Greenhill  4 , Amanda Leach  5 , Catherine Satzke  6   7   8
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World Health Organization (WHO) Standard Methods for Pneumococcal Carriage Studies

Paul Turner et al. Clin Infect Dis. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Potential conflicts of interest. A. L. reports MSD contract for pneumococcal carriage data analysis, funds paid to institution, outside of the submitted work. R. S.-L. reports funds directly paid to institution from Pfizer as investigator initiated research grant outside of the submitted work and received payment for lectures paid directly to self from Pfizer. C. S. reports being lead investigator on a Merck Investigator Studies Program grant funded by MSD on pneumococcal serotype epidemiology in children with empyema paid to institution and investigator on a clinical research collaboration on PVC vaccination in Mongolia from Pfizer paid to the institution, both outside of the submitted work. P. T. reports PI of the ACORN AMR surveillance project (grant number 222156/Z/20/Z) from the Wellcome Trust outside of the submitted work. A. G. reports no potential conflicts. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Conflicts that the editors consider relevant to the content of the manuscript have been disclosed.

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