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A Vaccine Against Group B Streptococcus: Recent Advances [PDF]

, 2020
Group B streptococcus (GBS) causes a high burden of neonatal and infant disease globally. Implementing a vaccine for pregnant women is a promising strategy to prevent neonatal and infant GBS disease and has been identified as a priority by the World ...
Carreras-Abad, C, Heath, PT, Le Doare, K, Ramkhelawon, L   +3 more
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Pneumococcal carriage in sub-Saharan Africa--a systematic review. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal epidemiology varies geographically and few data are available from the African continent. We assess pneumococcal carriage from studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA) before and after the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)
A Fenoll, A Kacou-N'Douba, A Kacou-N'douba, A Roca, A von Gottberg, A Woolfson, A Yomo, AB Brueggemann, AH Skalet, AK Rowe, Andrew Hall, B Frederiksen, B Oppenheim, BM Gray, BM Gray, C Levy, Caroline L. Trotter, Christian Bottomley, CL Trotter, D Bogaert, D Hansman, DB Blossom, DM Denno, DM Mwenya, DR Feikin, DR Feikin, E Varon, Effua Usuf, ES Donkor, EV Millar, G Regev-Yochay, GA Mackenzie, H Faden, H Rinta-Kokko, H Smith-Vaughan, HL Johnson, HT Vu, ID Rusen, JA Scott, JAG Scott, JD Kellner, JR Scott, KA Robinson, KL O'Brien, KL O'Brien, KP Klugman, L Marcus, L Pemba, LC Bere, LM McNally, M Antonio, M Guevara, M Mthwalo, MF Cotton, MK Darboe, MK Darboe, ML Joloba, MO Ota, MR Capeding, MR Jacobs, MW Mureithi, N Lloyd-Evans, N Mbelle, NOA Nwachukwu, O Abdullahi, O Abdullahi, PC Hill, PC Hill, PC Hill, PL Ho, PW Roche, R Dagan, RA Adegbola, RE Huebner, RE Huebner, Richard A. Adegbola, RK Syrjanen, RM Robins-Browne, RN Ndip, S Haug, S Yang, SB Gordon, SK Obaro, SK Obaro, SL Batt, SL Kaplan, SR Williams, SS Huang, WM Nyandiko, X Valles, YB Cheung, YT Kandakai-Olukemi   +91 more
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From meadows to milk to mucosa – adaptation of Streptococcus and Lactococcus species to their nutritional environments [PDF]

, 2011
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are indigenous to food-related habitats as well as associated with the mucosal surfaces of animals. The LAB family Streptococcaceae consists of the genera Lactococcus and Streptococcus.
Adab, P., Blissett, J., Frew, E., Gill, Paramjit, Griffin, T. L., Griffith, L., Hurley, K. L., Jolly, K., Lancashire, E. R., McGee, E., Pallan, M. J., Parry, J. M., Thompson, J. L.   +12 more
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Quorum sensing in group A Streptococcus [PDF]

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2014
Quorum sensing (QS) is a widespread phenomenon in the microbial world that has important implications in the coordination of population-wide responses in several bacterial pathogens. In Group A Streptococcus (GAS), many questions surrounding QS systems remain to be solved pertaining to their function and their contribution to the GAS lifestyle in the ...
Michael J. Federle, Juan Cristobal Jimenez   +1 more
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Developing a serocorrelate of protection against invasive group B streptococcus disease in pregnant women: a feasibility study. [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: Group B streptococcus is the leading cause of infection in infants. Currently, intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis is the major strategy to prevent invasive group B streptococcus disease.
Andrews, N, Carreras-Abad, C, Cochet, M, Djennad, A, Hall, T, Hamid, R, Heath, P, Khalil, A, Le Doare, K, Peregrine, E, Planche, T, Plumb, J, Ramkhelawon, L, Sheridan, E, Sivarajan, S, Vinayakarao, L, Winchester, S   +16 more
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Group A, B, C, and G Streptococcus Lancefield antigen biosynthesis is initiated by a conserved α-D-GlcNAc-β-1,4-L-rhamnosyltransferase [PDF]

, 2019
Group A carbohydrate (GAC) is a bacterial peptidoglycan-anchored surface rhamnose polysaccharide (RhaPS) that is essential for growth of Streptococcus pyogenes and contributes to its ability to infect the human host.
Albesa-Jové, Artimo, Azul Zorzoli, Benjamin H. Meyer, Bentley, Brandenburg, Breton, Breton, Brown, Bruyere, Caliot, Cartee, Chang, Chapot-Chartier, Charbonneau, Chia, Clarke, Coligan, Courtney, Cunningham, De, De Bruyn, Dhaked, Ding, Druzhinina, Dusan Uhrin, Edgar, Efstratiou, Elaine Adair, Endo, Ferretti, Franco, Guerin, Helge C. Dorfmueller, Henningham, Heymann, Hong, Huang, Hyams, Islam, Islam, James, Jankute, Jurtshuk, Kelley, Klena, Kovacs, Krause, Kristian, Lairson, Lancefield, Le Breton, Le Breton, Lehrer, Leonid L. Danilov, Letunic, Lombard, Magee, Marchler-Bauer, Martinez-Fleites, Mazmanian, McCarty, Michon, Mistou, Moreland, Nagata, Nelson, Nothaft, Ogura, Ozaki, Parsonage, Persson, Pradel, Pritchard, Rini, Ristl, Robinson, Rodriguez-Iturbe, Rubens, Rubirés, Rucker, Rush, Sadovskaya, Schäffer, Schägger, Sewell, Shelburne, Shibata, Sievers, Sika-Paotonu, Sims Sanyahumbi, St. Michael, Sutcliffe, Swoboda, Tsuda, van der Beek, van Hensbergen, van Sorge, Vetting, Viklund, Villegas, Vladimir I. Torgov, Vladimir V. Veselovsky, Waldo, Wang, Wang, Weidenmaier, Willis, Wittgens, Wollin, Zeleznick   +110 more
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Group B streptococcus cystitis presenting in a diabetic patient with a massive abdominopelvic abscess: a case report [PDF]

, 2012
INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus agalactiae or group B streptococcus is a Gram-positive pathogen that is typically associated with neonatal disease and infection in pregnant women.
Chee K Tan, Glen C Ulett, Jennifer H Shuemaker, Kimberly B Ulett, William H Benjamin   +4 more
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Correlates of Protection for M Protein-Based Vaccines against Group A Streptococcus

Journal of Immunology Research, 2015
Group A streptococcus (GAS) is known to cause a broad spectrum of illness, from pharyngitis and impetigo, to autoimmune sequelae such as rheumatic heart disease, and invasive diseases.
Shu Ki Tsoi, Pierre R. Smeesters, Hannah R. C. Frost, Paul Licciardi, Andrew C. Steer   +4 more
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GMMA as an Alternative Carrier for a Glycoconjugate Vaccine against Group A Streptococcus

Vaccines, 2022
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes about 500,000 annual deaths globally, and no vaccines are currently available. The Group A Carbohydrate (GAC), conserved across all GAS serotypes, conjugated to an appropriate carrier protein, represents a promising ...
Elena Palmieri, Zoltán Kis, James Ozanne, Roberta Di Benedetto, Beatrice Ricchetti, Luisa Massai, Martina Carducci, Davide Oldrini, Gianmarco Gasperini, Maria Grazia Aruta, Omar Rossi, Cleo Kontoravdi, Nilay Shah, Fatme Mawas, Francesca Micoli   +14 more
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Group A Streptococcus

, 2020
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) or Streptococcus pyogenes, affects an estimated 800 million people each year. Most of the resulting estimated 639,000 annual deaths are related to rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its complications. Resource-limited areas account for the vast majority of cases, although outbreaks still occur in industrialized countries. GAS
Hand, Robert M., Snelling, Thomas L., Carapetis, Jonathan R.   +2 more
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