Streptococcus pneumoniae in Saliva of Dutch Primary School Children

Age-Dependent Prevalence of Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae before Conjugate Vaccine Introduction: A Prediction Model Based on a Meta-Analysis

(2014) Olivier Le Polain de Waroux et al.   PLoS One

Genome-Wide Identification of Genes Essential for the Survival of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Human Saliva

(2014) Lilly M. Verhagen et al.   PLoS One

Seasonal Drivers of Pneumococcal Disease Incidence: Impact of Bacterial Carriage and Viral Activity

(2013) Daniel M. Weinberger et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Competition Between Streptococcus Pneumoniae Strains

(2013) Juha Mehtälä et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY

Superiority of Trans-Oral over Trans-Nasal Sampling in Detecting Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization in Adults

(2013) Krzysztof Trzciński et al.   PLoS One

Design questions for Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine trials with a colonisation endpoint

(2013) Kari Auranen et al.   VACCINE

Standard method for detecting upper respiratory carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Updated recommendations from the World Health Organization Pneumococcal Carriage Working Group

(2013) Catherine Satzke et al.   VACCINE

Serotype-Specific Changes in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction: A Pooled Analysis of Multiple Surveillance Sites

(2013) Daniel R. Feikin et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Non-pneumococcal mitis-group streptococci confound detection of pneumococcal capsular serotype-specific loci in upper respiratory tract

(2013) Maria da Gloria Carvalho et al.   PeerJ

The fundamental link between pneumococcal carriage and disease

(2012) Birgit Simell et al.   Expert Review of Vaccines

Potential Nonpneumococcal Confounding of PCR-Based Determination of Serotype in Carriage

(2012) M. d. G. Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deep Sequencing Analyses of Low Density Microbial Communities: Working at the Boundary of Accurate Microbiota Detection

(2012) Giske Biesbroek et al.   PLoS One

High Levels of Genetic Recombination during Nasopharyngeal Carriage and Biofilm Formation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2012) L. R. Marks et al.   mBio

Improved Detection of Nasopharyngeal Cocolonization by Multiple Pneumococcal Serotypes by Use of Latex Agglutination or Molecular Serotyping by Microarray

(2011) P. Turner et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Serotype replacement in disease after pneumococcal vaccination

(2011) Daniel M Weinberger et al.   LANCET

Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Desiccation Tolerant and Infectious upon Rehydration

(2011) R. L. Walsh et al.   mBio

Within-Host Competition Drives Selection for the Capsule Virulence Determinant of Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Elena S. Lysenko et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Revisiting Pneumococcal Carriage by Use of Broth Enrichment and PCR Techniques for Enhanced Detection of Carriage and Serotypes

(2010) M. d. G. Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Realtime PCR Is More Sensitive than Multiplex PCR for Diagnosis and Serotyping in Children with Culture Negative Pneumococcal Invasive Disease

(2010) Chiara Azzari et al.   PLoS One

Structure and dynamics of the pan-genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and closely related species

(2010) Claudio Donati et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Between-Strain Competition in Acquisition and Clearance of Pneumococcal Carriage—Epidemiologic Evidence From a Longitudinal Study of Day-Care Children

(2009) Kari Auranen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Multiplex PCR reveals a high rate of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine serotypes co-colonizing indigenous Warao children in Venezuela

(2009) I. A. Rivera-Olivero et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence

(2009) Daniel M. Weinberger et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Clustering of serotypes in a longitudinal study of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in three day care centres

(2008) Tuija Leino et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Close Commensal Relatives

(2008) Mogens Kilian et al.   PLoS One