Streptococcus pneumoniae but leads to replacement by nonvaccine serotypes and may
affect carriage of other respiratory pathogens. We investigated nasopharyngeal carriage of
S. pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Staphylococcus aureus
in Fijian infants participating in a pneumococcal vaccine trial using quantitative PCR.
Vaccination did not affect pathogen carriage rates or densities, whereas significant …