Letter to the EditorSex-based differences in pneumococcal serotype distribution in adults with pneumococcal meningitis
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This work was supported by grants from the European Research Council [ERC Starting Grant #281156, DvdB]; the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment; the European Union's seventh framework program [#279185, EUCLIDS]; Academic Medical Center (AMC Fellowship to DvdB); and the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development [Vidi grant number 016.116.358 to DvdB, Veni grant 2012 number 916.13.078 to MCB]. The sponsor of the study had no role in study design, data
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Acknowledgements
We thank many physicians in the Netherlands for their cooperation and acknowledge the ESCMID Study Group for Infectious Diseases of the Brain (ESGIB) for this collaboration.
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