The nasopharyngeal microbiota represents a complex ecosystem made up of several hundred bacterial species, f ve of which are frequently associated with paediatric infections: Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp), Haemophilus influenzas (Hi), Moraxelle catarrhalis (Mc), Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus (SA), and will be discussed here.
The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, however, represented a veritable ecological revolution in the respiratory tract microbiota, altering the carriage of pneumococci, causing vaccine serotypes to be replaced by other, less pathogenic serotypes, and reducing both invasive and non-invasive infections.
The impact of vaccination programs with conjugate vaccines, carriage in healthy children and in children with acute otitis media are reported here through a study of over 20,000 children over the past 25 years.
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