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Prevalence (%) of bacterial carriage of the upper airways in childhood. Nasopharyngeal (NP). Nasopharyngeal carriage of any bacteria was classified as positive when either of Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, or Streptococcus pneumoniae was positive, and negative if all three were negative
