Population Structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae Causing Invasive Disease in Adults in Portugal before PCV13 Availability for Adults: 2008-2011

Strain features and distributions in pneumococci from children with invasive disease before and after 13-valent conjugate vaccine implementation in the USA

(2016) B.J. Metcalf et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Serotypes, antimicrobial susceptibility, and molecular epidemiology of invasive and non-invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in paediatric patients after the introduction of 13-valent conjugate vaccine in a nationwide surveillance study conducted in Japan in 2012–2014

(2016) Satoshi Nakano et al.   VACCINE

Effect of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease in England and Wales 4 years after its introduction: an observational cohort study

(2015) Pauline A Waight et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Decreasing incidence and changes in serotype distribution of invasive pneumococcal disease in persons aged under 18 years since introduction of 10-valent and 13-valent conjugate vaccines in Portugal, July 2008 to June 2012

(2014) S I Aguiar et al.   Eurosurveillance

Low Prevalence of Pneumococcal Carriage and High Serotype and Genotype Diversity among Adults over 60 Years of Age Living in Portugal

(2014) Sónia T. Almeida et al.   PLoS One

Serotypes and Genotypes of Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae Before and After PCV10 Implementation in Southern Brazil

(2014) Juliana Caierão et al.   PLoS One

Sequence Analysis of 96 Genomic Regions Identifies Distinct Evolutionary Lineages within CC156, the Largest Streptococcus pneumoniae Clonal Complex in the MLST Database

(2013) Monica Moschioni et al.   PLoS One

The Majority of Adult Pneumococcal Invasive Infections in Portugal Are Still Potentially Vaccine Preventable in Spite of Significant Declines of Serotypes 1 and 5

(2013) Andreia N. Horácio et al.   PLoS One

PHYLOViZ: phylogenetic inference and data visualization for sequence based typing methods

(2012) Alexandre P Francisco et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Changes in Molecular Epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae Causing Meningitis following Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination in England and Wales

(2012) Bruno Pichon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal Capsular Switching: A Historical Perspective

(2012) K. L. Wyres et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Use of the 13-valent conjugate vaccine has the potential to eliminate pilus carrying isolates as causes of invasive pneumococcal disease

(2012) Sandra I. Aguiar et al.   VACCINE

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

(2011) R. Sa-Leao et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Clonal Evolution Leading to Maintenance of Antibiotic Resistance Rates among Colonizing Pneumococci in the PCV7 Era in Portugal

(2011) A. S. Simoes et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Adjusted Wallace Coefficient as a Measure of Congruence between Typing Methods

(2011) Ana Severiano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Serotypes and clones causing invasive pneumococcal disease before the use of new conjugate vaccines in Catalonia, Spain

(2011) Carmen Muñoz-Almagro et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

A Variable Region within the Genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae Contributes to Strain-Strain Variation in Virulence

(2011) Richard M. Harvey et al.   PLoS One

Serotype changes in adult invasive pneumococcal infections in Portugal did not reduce the high fraction of potentially vaccine preventable infections

(2011) Andreia N. Horácio et al.   VACCINE

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

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

Sustained Reductions in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in the Era of Conjugate Vaccine

(2009) Tamara Pilishvili et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The effect of routine vaccination on invasive pneumococcal infections in Canadian children, Immunization Monitoring Program, Active 2000–2007

(2009) Julie A. Bettinger et al.   VACCINE

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

(2008) Sandra I Aguiar et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease among Adult Patients in Barcelona Before and After Pediatric 7‐Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction, 1997–2007

(2008) Carmen Ardanuy et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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