Pneumococcal Colonisation is an Asymptomatic Event in Healthy Adults using an Experimental Human Colonisation Model.
A. Trimble, V. Connor, R. Robinson, C. Hancock, D. Wang, S. Gordon, D. Ferreira, A. Wright, A. Collins
This study investigates whether pneumococcal colonisation in healthy adults is symptomatic using an experimental challenge model, finding it asymptomatic regardless of bacterial density or viral co-colonisation.
bioRxiv · Jun 3, 2019Microbiology