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Acute pneumococcal myelitis in an adult patient

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2014
Pneumococcal meningitis represents the most severe community-acquired bacterial meningitis. The disease is frequently associated with various complications.
Klaudija Višković, Matej Mustapić, Marko Kutleša, Dragan Lepur   +3 more
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Multi-serotype pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence in vaccine naïve Nepalese children, assessed using molecular serotyping. [PDF]

, 2015
Invasive pneumococcal disease is one of the major causes of death in young children in resource poor countries. Nasopharyngeal carriage studies provide insight into the local prevalence of circulating pneumococcal serotypes.
Gurung, M, Kandasamy, Rama, Neelam Adhikari, David R Murdoch, Katherine A Gould, Murdoch, DR, Thapa, A, Adhikari, N, Hinds, Jason, Shrestha, S, Gould, Katherine A., Anushil Thapa, Kandasamy, R ; https://orcid.org/, Waldron, Denise E., Stephen Thorson, Rama Kandasamy, Waldron, DE, Gould, KA, Ndimah, S, Thorson, Stephen, Kelly, Dominic F., Shrijana Shrestha, Thorson, S, Dominic F Kelly, Meeru Gurung, Thapa, Anushil, Andrew J Pollard, Murdoch, David R., Ndimah, Susan, Shrestha, Shrijana, Denise E Waldron, Hinds, J, Pollard, Andrew J., Kandasamy, R, Adhikari, Neelam, Jason Hinds, Kelly, DF, Gurung, Meeru, Pollard, AJ, Pollard, Andrew, Susan Ndimah   +40 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance in Children With Bloodstream Infections: A Population‐Based Study in Stockholm, Sweden

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim We retrospectively evaluated trends in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in paediatric bloodstream infections and assessed changes in antimicrobial prescription patterns over a 20‐year period. Methods We analysed positive blood cultures from children admitted with suspected serious infection between 1998 and 2018.
Joachim Luthander, Rutger Bennet, Per Nydert, Margareta Eriksson, Christian G. Giske, Anna Nilsson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bacterial meningitis: the role of transforming growth factor-Beta in innate immunity and secondary brain damage [PDF]

, 2007
Project 6 of the NCCR 'Neural Plasticity and Repair' focuses on mechanisms of immunity and tissue damage in autoimmune and infectious diseases of the central nervous system (CNS).
Malipiero, U, Malipiero, Ursula, Pfister, W, Fontana, Adriano, Koedel, U, Pfister, Walter, Fontana, A, Koedel, Uwe   +7 more
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Pneumococcal meningitis in Iran: a systematic review and meta–analysis

Journal of Acute Disease, 2019
Objective: To estimate the frequency of pneumococcal meningitis among patients with bacterial meningitis in Iran. Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Scientific Information Database (www.sid.ir) were searched from 2000 to 2016 to identify studies
Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Ahmad Reza Shamshiri, Mohammad Javad Nasiri, Daniel M Weinberger, Masoud Dadashi, Abdollah Karimi   +5 more
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Monitoring the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines into West Africa: design and implementation of a population-based surveillance system. [PDF]

, 2012
Routine use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in developing countries is expected to lead to a significant reduction in childhood deaths. However, PCVs have been associated with replacement disease with non-vaccine serotypes.
Greenwood, Brian M, Wattiaux Andre, Stephen R C Howie, Effua Usuf, Sambou Sana, Plumb Ian D., Uchendu, Uchendu, Wattiaux, Andre, Maria Deloria Knoll, Howie Stephen R. C., Saha, Debasish, Ian D Plumb, Philip C Hill, Howie, Stephen RC, Ikumapayi Usman N., Mackenzie Grant A., Lee Ellen, Jasseh, Momodou, Greenwood Brian M., Sana Sambou, Debasish Saha, Akinsola, Bolanle, Ellen Lee, Hill, Philip C, Brian M Greenwood, Jasseh Momodou, Adegbola, Richard A, Plumb, Ian D, Hill Philip C., Akinsola Bolanle, Kebba Touray, Uchendu Uchendu, Baldeh Ignatius, Usman N Ikumapayi, Ikumapayi, Usman N, Touray, Kebba, Levine, Orin S, Orin S Levine, Usuf Effua, Lee, Ellen, Ignatius Baldeh, Richard A Adegbola, Bolanle Akinsola, Saha Debasish, Momodou Jasseh, Sambou, Sana, Levine Orin S., Grant A Mackenzie, Knoll, Maria Deloria, Andre Wattiaux, Baldeh, Ignatius, Mackenzie, Grant A, Knoll Maria Deloria, Adegbola Richard A., Touray Kebba, Usuf, Effua   +55 more
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Burden of pneumococcal disease in children in Cuba before the introduction of a novel pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2019
# Background The Cuban heptavalent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine will be introduced for children beginning in 2020. We estimated the burden of pneumococcal cases and deaths in children 1-59 months in 2015.
Nivaldo Linares-Pérez, Brian Wahl, Misladys Rodriguez, Gilda Toraño, María E. Toledo-Romaní   +4 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)
Bottomley, Christian, Andrew Hall, Richard A. Adegbola (20657), Hall, Andrew, Hall Andrew, Effua Usuf (334925), Effua Usuf, Christian Bottomley, Adegbola Richard A., Bottomley Christian, Adegbola, Richard A, Usuf, Effua, Usuf Effua, Andrew Hall (223292), Richard A Adegbola, Christian Bottomley (144483)   +15 more
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Artificial Intelligence Resources for the Screening of Titles and Abstracts in Systematic Reviews: A Scoping Review

Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, Volume 4, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of technology enabling machines to emulate complex human skills; it can also entail problem‐solving using bioinspired methods. It is used for automating systematic literature reviews (SLR), that is, defining a clinical question, locating relevant literature, preliminary screening, study ...
Ana M. Barragán, Sara Elena Ortiz Bonett, Eliana‐Isabel Rodríguez‐Grande, Alvaro David Orjuela‐Cañón, Oscar J. Perdomo, Guillermo Sánchez‐Vanegas   +5 more
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Decrease in Pneumococcal Co-Colonization following Vaccination with the Seven-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine [PDF]

, 2012
Understanding the epidemiology of pneumococcal co-colonization is important for monitoring vaccine effectiveness and the occurrence of horizontal gene transfer between pneumococcal strains.
Sá-Leão, Raquel, Katherine Gould, Francisco Pinto (188116), Katherine Gould (188123), Hinds, Jason, Pinto, Francisco, Kathrin Mühlemann (109266), Jason Hinds (41307), Silvio D. Brugger, Raquel Sá-Leão (188130), Carina Valente, Kathrin Mühlemann, Gould, K, Valente, C, Brugger, Silvio D., Hermínia de Lencastre, Carina Valente (188109), de Lencastre, Hermínia, Raquel Sá-Leão, Silvio D Brugger, Valente, Carina, Hinds, J, Silvio D. Brugger (109258), Pinto, F, de Lencastre, H, Sá-Leão, R, Brugger, SD, Jason Hinds, Francisco Pinto, Mühlemann, K, Hermínia de Lencastre (1970), Gould, Katherine, Mühlemann, Kathrin   +32 more
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