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Proportion of carriers of S. pneumoniae in the general population before (5 years) and after (20 years) vaccination of 30% (A) and 80% (B) of children <2 years old. The thick solid line represents the overall carriage rate, while the thin solid line represents carriage of vaccine serotypes, and the dotted line represents carriage of nonvaccine serotypes.
