Pneumococcal serotype replacement / antigenic drift

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Teaching point

After mass pneumococcal vaccination, non-vaccine strains rise (serotype replacement), increasing disease even in unvaccinated people. Antigenic drift is minor mutation of surface proteins (influenza), distinct from serotype replacement.

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