A spitting image: molecular diagnostics applied to saliva enhance detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and pneumococcal serotype carriage

Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage studies in adults: Importance, challenges, and key issues to consider when using quantitative PCR-based approaches

(2023) Willem R. Miellet et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Pneumococcal carriage in unvaccinated children at the time of vaccine implementation into the national immunization program in Poland

(2022) Izabela Wróbel-Pawelczyk et al.   Scientific Reports

It Takes Two to Tango: Combining Conventional Culture With Molecular Diagnostics Enhances Accuracy of Streptococcus pneumoniae Detection and Pneumococcal Serogroup/Serotype Determination in Carriage

(2022) Willem R. Miellet et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Re-evaluation of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in Portuguese elderly by qPCR increases carriage estimates and unveils an expanded pool of serotypes

(2020) Sónia T. Almeida et al.   Scientific Reports

A Pangenome Approach for Discerning Species-Unique Gene Markers for Identifications of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae

(2020) Lucia Gonzales-Siles et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Expanded sequential quadriplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for identifying pneumococcal serotypes, penicillin susceptibility, and resistance markers

(2020) Srinivasan Velusamy et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

The Challenges of Using Oropharyngeal Samples To Measure Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults

(2020) Laura K. Boelsen et al.   mSphere

Dynamics of Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults: A New Look at an Old Paradigm

(2020) Sónia T Almeida et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Making sense of differences in pneumococcal serotype replacement

(2019) Joseph A Lewnard et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Limited indirect effects of an infant pneumococcal vaccination program in an aging population

(2019) Mark van der Linden et al.   PLoS One

Erratum for Kilian and Tettelin, “Identification of Virulence-Associated Properties by Comparative Genome Analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. pseudopneumoniae, S. mitis, Three S. oralis Subspecies, and S. infantis”

(2019) Mogens Kilian et al.   mBio

Increased carriage of non-vaccine serotypes with low invasive disease potential four years after switching to the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in The Netherlands

(2018) Marloes Vissers et al.   PLoS One

Effect of prior vaccination on carriage rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in older adults: A longitudinal surveillance study

(2018) Angela R. Branche et al.   VACCINE

Sequencing of the variable region of rpsB to discriminate between Streptococcus pneumoniae and other streptococcal species

(2017) Anne L. Wyllie et al.   Open Biology

Molecular surveillance of nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children vaccinated with conjugated polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines

(2016) Anne L. Wyllie et al.   Scientific Reports

Molecular surveillance on Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in non-elderly adults; little evidence for pneumococcal circulation independent from the reservoir in children

(2016) Anne L. Wyllie et al.   Scientific Reports

Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Aged Adults with Influenza-Like-Illness

(2015) Cassandra L. Krone et al.   PLoS One

Streptococcus pneumoniae in Saliva of Dutch Primary School Children

(2014) Anne L. Wyllie et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) Krzysztof Trzciński et al.   PLoS One

Colonisation endpoints in Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine trials

(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

Value of composite reference standards in diagnostic research

(2013) C. A. Naaktgeboren et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Immunosenescence and pneumococcal disease: an imbalance in host–pathogen interactions

(2013) Cassandra L Krone et al.   Lancet Respiratory 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

Sequential Triplex Real-Time PCR Assay for Detecting 21 Pneumococcal Capsular Serotypes That Account for a High Global Disease Burden

(2012) F. C. Pimenta et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Determination of the LOQ in real-time PCR by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis: application to qPCR assays for Fusarium verticillioides and F. proliferatum

(2011) Sabine Nutz et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Potential serotype coverage of three pneumococcal conjugate vaccines against invasive pneumococcal infection in Italian children

(2011) Chiara Azzari et al.   VACCINE

Effect of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination on Serotype-Specific Carriage and Invasive Disease in England: A Cross-Sectional Study

(2011) Stefan Flasche et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

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

Clinical and economic burden of community-acquired pneumonia among adults in Europe

(2010) T Welte et al.   THORAX

Effect of Reduced-Dose Schedules With 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Carriage in Children

(2009) Elske J. M. van Gils et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates

(2009) Katherine L O'Brien et al.   LANCET

Invasive pneumococcal disease in the Netherlands: Syndromes, outcome and potential vaccine benefits

(2009) Angelique G.S.C. Jansen et al.   VACCINE