Vaccination of mothers for Pneumococcal disease has no effect on whether baby gets colonized with pneumococcal diseas

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But, hey, there is less colonization for type 6B…Just forget about the other 90+ strains… Pneumococcal Nasopharyngeal Carriage in Infants of Mothers Immunized with 23V Non-conjugate Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 01/25/2012Lopesa CC et al. – Although this study was unable to demonstrate any effect of maternal vaccination in reducing pneumococcal colonization, reduction of colonization for serotype 6B in infants may be an important effect.