Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation in children and adolescents with asthma: impact of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and evaluation of potential effect of thirteen-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Pharyngeal Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Older Children and Adolescents in a Geographical Area Characterized by Relatively Limited Pneumococcal Vaccination Coverage

(2015) Nicola Principi et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

The Efficacy and Duration of Protection of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Against Nasopharyngeal Carriage

(2015) Olivier Le Polain De Waroux et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Children with asthma by school age display aberrant immune responses to pathogenic airway bacteria as infants

(2014) Jeppe Madura Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Serotype-specific effectiveness and correlates of protection for the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: a postlicensure indirect cohort study

(2014) Nick J Andrews et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Use of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children and adolescents aged 6 – 17 years

(2013) Ruth Mitchell et al.   EXPERT OPINION ON BIOLOGICAL THERAPY

Oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal sampling for the detection of adolescent Streptococcus pneumoniae carriers

(2013) N. Principi et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Different Types of Nasopharyngeal Swabs in Children

(2013) Felix S. Dube et al.   PLoS One

Improvement of pneumococcal pneumonia diagnostics by the use of rt-PCR on plasma and respiratory samples

(2013) Vesna Cvitkovic Spik et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Paediatric asthma and pneumococcal vaccination

(2013) Susanna Esposito et al.   VACCINE

Colonisation endpoints in Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine trials

(2013) Kari Auranen et al.   VACCINE

The fundamental link between pneumococcal carriage and disease

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

Streptococcus pneumoniae – a review of carriage, infection, serotype replacement and vaccination

(2012) Sam Mehr et al.   Paediatric Respiratory Reviews

Sampling methods for the study of pneumococcal carriage: A systematic review

(2012) R.A. Gladstone et al.   VACCINE

Association of Serotype-Specific Antibody Concentrations and Functional Antibody Titers with Subsequent Pneumococcal Carriage in Toddlers Immunized with a 9-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

(2011) Birgit Simell et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Modifications of the Innate Immune System in Atopic Dermatitis

(2011) Laura Maintz et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Identification of Pneumococcal Serotypes by Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Using Blood Samples from Italian Children ≤5 Years of Age with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

(2011) Anna Marchese et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Influence of Asthma Status on Serotype-Specific Pneumococcal Antibody Levels

(2011) Ji A. Jung et al.   POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE

Increased risk of serious pneumococcal disease in patients with atopic conditions other than asthma

(2010) Ji A. Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Identification of the cpsA gene as a specific marker for the discrimination of Streptococcus pneumoniae from viridans group streptococci

(2010) H. K. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL 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

Estimation of vaccine efficacy against acquisition of pneumococcal carriage

(2009) Hanna Rinta-Kokko et al.   VACCINE

Prevalence and risk factors for nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae among adolescents

(2008) D. M. Cardozo et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY