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Impact of preceding flu-like illness on the serotype distribution of pneumococcal pneumonia.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundEven though the pathogenicity and invasiveness of pneumococcus largely depend on capsular types, the impact of serotypes on post-viral pneumococcal pneumonia is unknown.Methods and findingsThis study was performed to evaluate the impact of ...
Joon Young Song, Moon H Nahm, Hee Jin Cheong, Woo Joo Kim   +3 more
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Effect of recurrent invasive pneumococcal disease on serum anti-pneumolysin IgG titres in HIV infected adults. [PDF]

, 2009
We measured serum anti-pneumolysin IgG concentrations in a prospective cohort of 34 HIV infected adults who developed recurrent pneumococcal bacteraemia, and compared baseline levels with HIV positive and HIV negative control subjects that remained free ...
Gordon, Stephen B, Zijlstra, Ed E., Etuwewe, Onajite M., Etuwewe, Onajite M, Zijlstra, Ed E, Gordon, Stephen, Hollingshead, Susan, Tolmie, Helen, French, Neil, Gordon, Stephen B., Swann, Natalie, Faragher, Brian   +11 more
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Common NFKBIL2 polymorphisms and susceptibility to pneumococcal disease: a genetic association study. [PDF]

, 2010
INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus pneumoniae remains a major global health problem and a leading cause of death in children worldwide. The factors that influence development of pneumococcal sepsis remain poorly understood, although increasing evidence points ...
Rautanen, Anna, Moore, CE, Davies, RJ, J Scott, Adrian VS Hill, Shelley Segal, Berkley, James, Hill, Adrian, Chiea C Khor, Andrew Walley, Catrin E Moore, Hill, AVS, Peshu, N, Davies, Robert JO, Scott, John, Williams, TN, Chapman, Stephen J, James A Berkley, Segal, S, Rautanen, A, Hill, AV, Scott, J Anthony, Fredrik O Vannberg, Walley, A, Khor, Chiea C, Vannberg, Fredrik O, Davies, RJO, Khor, CC, Derrick W Crook, Crook, DW, Moore, Catrin E, Berkley, James A, Segal, Shelley, Berkley, JA, Norbert Peshu, Hill, Adrian VS, Crook, Derrick W, Thomas N Williams, Day, Nicholas P, Day, NP, Vannberg, FO, Peshu, Norbert, Chapman, SJ, Scott, JA, Stephen J Chapman, Nicholas P Day, Anna Rautanen, Williams, Thomas N, Day, Nicholas, Walley, Andrew, Williams, Thomas, Robert JO Davies   +51 more
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Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination of Infants on Pneumonia and Influenza Hospitalization and Mortality in All Age Groups in the United States

mBio, 2011
A seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) introduced in the United States in 2000 has been shown to reduce invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in both vaccinated children and adults through induction of herd immunity. We assessed the impact of
Lone Simonsen, Robert J. Taylor, Yinong Young-Xu, Michael Haber, Larissa May, Keith P. Klugman   +5 more
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Dynamic models of pneumococcal carriage and the impact of the Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: The 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been introduced in national immunisation programmes of most industrialised countries and recently in two African GAVI eligible countries (Rwanda and The Gambia). However the long term effects of
George, Robert, Robert George, Y.H. Choi, Miller, Elizabeth, Edmunds, John W., Elizabeth Miller, Melegaro, Alessia, Yoon Hong Choi, E. Miller, Choi, Yoon Hong, Gay, Nigel J, Edmunds, W John, Nigel J Gay, R. George, W John Edmunds, Alessia Melegaro, N.J. Gay, W.J. Edmunds, Gay, Nigel J., George Robert, Miller Elizabeth, Edmunds W John, Choi Yoon, Gay Nigel J, Melegaro Alessia   +24 more
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Estimating the burden of pneumococcal pneumonia among adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic techniques.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundPneumococcal pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality among adults. Given limitations of diagnostic tests for non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia, most studies report the incidence of bacteremic or invasive pneumococcal disease ...
Maria A Said, Hope L Johnson, Bareng A S Nonyane, Maria Deloria-Knoll, Katherine L O'Brien, AGEDD Adult Pneumococcal Burden Study Team, Felipe Andreo, Bojana Beovic, Silvia Blanco, Wim G Boersma, David R Boulware, Jay C Butler, Jordi Carratalà, Feng-Yee Chang, Patrick G P Charles, Alejandro A Diaz, Jose Domínguez, Naomi Ehara, Henrik Endeman, Vicenç Falcó, Miquel Falguera, Kiyoyasu Fukushima, Carolina Garcia-Vidal, Daniel Genne, Igor A Guchev, Felix Gutierrez, Susanne S Hernes, Andy I M Hoepelman, Ulla Hohenthal, Niclas Johansson, Vitezslav Kolek, Roman S Kozlov, Tsai-Ling Lauderdale, Ivana Mareković, Mar Masiá, Matta A Matta, Òscar Miró, David R Murdoch, Eric Nuermberger, Richard Paolini, Rafael Perelló, Dominic Snijders, Vanda Plečko, Roger Sordé, Kristoffer Strålin, Menno M van der Eerden, Angel Vila-Corcoles, James P Watt   +47 more
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Incidence of Hospitalisation and Emergency Department Visits for Pneumococcal Disease in Children, Adolescents, and Adults in Liguria, Italy: A Retrospective Analysis from 2012–2018

Vaccines, 2022
Streptococcus pneumoniae infection is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in young children and older adults. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of hospitalisation and emergency department (ED) visits in ...
Matteo Astengo, Chiara Paganino, Daniela Amicizia, Laura Sticchi, Andrea Orsi, Giancarlo Icardi, Maria Francesca Piazza, Salini Mohanty, Francesca Senese, Gian Marco Prandi, Filippo Ansaldi   +10 more
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Pneumococcal antibody concentrations and carriage of pneumococci more than 3 years after infant immunization with a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: A 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-9), given in a 3-dose schedule, protected Gambian children against pneumococcal disease and reduced nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci of vaccine serotypes.
Greenwood, Brian M, Godwin C. Enwere, Brown J Okoko, Nsekpong, Ekpedeme D, Godwin C Enwere, Ekpedeme D Nsekpong, Syed M. A. Zaman, Aderonke A. Odutola, Saaka, Mark, Zaman, Syed MA, Akinsola, Adebayo K, Richard A. Adegbola, Syed M A Zaman, Adebayo K. Akinsola, Aderonke A Odutola, Richard A Adegbola, Martin O. C. Ota, Okoko, Brown J, Odutola, Aderonke A, Martin O C Ota, Cutts, Felicity T, Felicity T Cutts, Ekpedeme D. Nsekpong, Felicity T. Cutts, Adebayo K Akinsola, Brown J. Okoko, Enwere, Godwin C, Brian M Greenwood, Mark Saaka, Adegbola, Richard A, Brian M. Greenwood, Ota, Martin OC   +31 more
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Routine infant vaccination of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines has decreased pneumonia across all age groups in Northern Spain

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Since the early 2000s, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) have been shown to be effective in the prevention of pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal diseases.
I. Rivero-Calle, J. Pardo Seco, P. F. Raguindin, F. Alvez, J. Gómez-Rial, A. Salas, J. Martinón Sanchez, F. Martinón-Torres   +7 more
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Pneumococcic Vaccine In Pneumonia [PDF]

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1909
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