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Streptococcus pneumoniae as a frequent cause of severe community-acquired pneumonia among children in Beijing

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Acknowledgment

We would like to express our gratitude to the Ministry of Sciences and Technology and the Ministry of Health of China (2003BA712A11-20), and the Bureau of Sciences and Technology of Beijing (Y0204004040131) for their financial support. We are likewise grateful to Ms. Yajuan Wang from the Beijing Children’s Hospital (BCH) for her support in the study. Finally, we acknowledge the help of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. for their support in the preparation of this manuscript.

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    Present address: Department of Internal Medicine, Beijing Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences, 56 Nan Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, People’s Republic of China

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Beijing Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences, 56 Nan Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, People’s Republic of China

    H. Hu, S. Yu, K. Yao, J. Deng, C. Zhao, X. Shen & Y. Yang

  2. Department of Pathology, Beijing Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences, 56 Nan Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, People’s Republic of China

    L. He

  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, St. Petersburg, 197376, Russia

    A. Dmitriev

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Hu, H., He, L., Yu, S. et al. Streptococcus pneumoniae as a frequent cause of severe community-acquired pneumonia among children in Beijing. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 28, 1129–1132 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-009-0734-4

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