Analysis of Invasiveness of Pneumococcal Serotypes and Clones Circulating in Portugal before Widespread Use of Conjugate Vaccines Reveals Heterogeneous Behavior of Clones Expressing the Same Serotype

A New Pneumococcal Serotype, 11E, Has a Variably InactivatedwcjEGene

(2010) Juan J. Calix et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Serotypes 1, 7F and 19A became the leading causes of pediatric invasive pneumococcal infections in Portugal after 7 years of heptavalent conjugate vaccine use

(2010) Sandra I. Aguiar et al.   VACCINE

Global optimal eBURST analysis of multilocus typing data using a graphic matroid approach

(2009) Alexandre P Francisco et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Changes in pneumococcal serotypes and antibiotypes carried by vaccinated and unvaccinated day-care centre attendees in Portugal, a country with widespread use of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

(2009) R. Sá-Leão et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Denmark14-230 Clone as an Increasing Cause of Pneumococcal Infection in Portugal within a Background of Diverse Serotype 19A Lineages

(2009) Sandra I. Aguiar et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The presence of the pilus locus is a clonal property among pneumococcal invasive isolates

(2008) Sandra I Aguiar et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Changes in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes causing invasive disease with non-universal vaccination coverage of the seven-valent conjugate vaccine

(2008) S.I. Aguiar et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

The role of Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence factors in host respiratory colonization and disease

(2008) Aras Kadioglu et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A Confidence Interval for the Wallace Coefficient of Concordance and Its Application to Microbial Typing Methods

(2008) Francisco R. Pinto et al.   PLoS One