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Maternal immunization with pneumococcal surface protein A protects against pneumococcal infections among derived offspring. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Pathogen-specific antibody plays an important role in protection against pneumococcal carriage and infections. However, neonates and infants exhibit impaired innate and adaptive immune responses, which result in their high susceptibility to pneumococci ...
Masamitsu Kono, Muneki Hotomi, Susan K Hollingshead, David E Briles, Noboru Yamanaka   +4 more
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The Health Professional’s View on the Inclusion of Age in the Recommendations for Pneumococcal Vaccination: Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey in France

Geriatrics, 2021
Elderly people are at high risk for pneumococcal infections. However, older age is not an eligibility factor for pneumococcal vaccination in France. Adults with certain co-morbidities or immunocompromised states are eligible for vaccination, which leaves
Gaëlle Farge, Benoît de Wazières, Jocelyn Raude, Clémence Delavelle, Fabienne Humbert, Cécile Janssen   +5 more
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Pathogenesis of pneumococcal infection [PDF]

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2000
The pathogenesis of pneumococcal infection is a complex interplay between pneumococcal virulence determinants and the host immune response. Molecular studies have considerably advanced our knowledge and understanding of the precise structures and functions of the different determinants and their pathogenic roles. This review describes the mechanisms by
S H, Gillespie, I, Balakrishnan
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Pneumonia: Regional experience with prevention programs [PDF]

Терапевтический архив, 2016
Aim. To generalize the regional experience in implementing a package of organizational and methodical and antiepidemic measures for preventing pneumococcal infections. Materials and methods.
A G Chuchalin, G G Onishchenko, V P Kolosov, O P Kurganova, N L Tezikov, L G Manakov, M P Gulevich, Yu M Perelman   +7 more
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The Roles of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 and 4 in Pneumococcal Nasal Colonization and Subsequent Development of Invasive Disease

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, neuronal stimulations widely known to be associated with thermal responses, pain induction, and osmoregulation, have been shown in recent studies to have underlying mechanisms associated with inflammatory ...
Masamitsu Kono, Denisa Nanushaj, Hideki Sakatani, Daichi Murakami, Masayoshi Hijiya, Tetsuya Kinoshita, Tatsuya Shiga, Fumie Kaneko, Keisuke Enomoto, Gen Sugita, Masayasu Miyajima, Yuka Okada, Shizuya Saika, Muneki Hotomi   +13 more
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Risk modelling the mortality impact of antimicrobial resistance in secondary pneumococcal pneumonia infections during the 2009 influenza pandemic

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Objectives: The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in secondary pneumococcal pneumonia infections on global mortality during the 2009 influenza pandemic, to estimate future pandemic mortality risk and to inform
Carrie E. Barnes, C. Raina MacIntyre
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House Dust Mite Aeroallergen Suppresses Leukocyte Phagocytosis and Netosis Initiated by Pneumococcal Lung Infection

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Asthmatics are highly susceptible to developing lower respiratory tract infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN, the pneumococcus). It has recently emerged that underlying allergic airway disease creates a lung microenvironment that is ...
Angelica Papanicolaou, Hao Wang, Jonathan McQualter, Christian Aloe, Stavros Selemidis, Catherine Satzke, Catherine Satzke, Catherine Satzke, Ross Vlahos, Steven Bozinovski   +9 more
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Prevention of pneumococcal diseases in the post-seven valent vaccine era: A European perspective

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background The burden of invasive pneumococcal disease in young children decreased dramatically following introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). The epidemiology of S.
Weil-Olivier Catherine, van der Linden Mark, de Schutter Iris, Dagan Ron, Mantovani Lorenzo   +4 more
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New Vaccines for the Prevention of Pneumococcal Infections

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1996
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of acute otitis media, pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis. Because in recent years antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal strains have been emerging throughout the world, vaccination against pneumococcal infections
Helena Käyhty, Juhani Eskola
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Meningitis, spondylodiscitis, pneumonia and septic shock with Streptococcus pneumoniae in a previously healthy woman with isolated IgG2-, IgG3-, IgA-deficiency and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance

Infectious Disease Reports, 2018
A 66 years old Caucasian woman with pneumococcal meningitis was treated and discharged after an uncomplicated course. Five months later she was readmitted withfever and right side abdominal pain and diagnosed with pneumococcal spondylodiscitis.
Shahin Gaini, David Gudnason, Bjarni á Steig, Jenny Jónsdóttir Nielsen   +3 more
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