Molecular characterization of serogroup 19 Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Czech Republic in the post-vaccine era

Whole genome sequencing ofStreptococcus pneumoniae: development, evaluation and verification of targets for serogroup and serotype prediction using an automated pipeline

(2016) Georgia Kapatai et al.   PeerJ

Genetic Analyses of Penicillin Binding Protein Determinants in Multidrug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Serogroup 19 CC320/271 Clone with High-Level Resistance to Third-Generation Cephalosporins

(2015) Margaret Ip et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Secular trends (1990–2013) in serotypes and associated non-susceptibility of S. pneumoniae isolates causing invasive disease in the pre-/post-era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Spanish regions without universal paediatric pneumococcal vaccination

(2015) Asunción Fenoll et al.   VACCINE

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Variable recombination dynamics during the emergence, transmission and ‘disarming’ of a multidrug-resistant pneumococcal clone

(2014) Nicholas J Croucher et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evidence for Soft Selective Sweeps in the Evolution of Pneumococcal Multidrug Resistance and Vaccine Escape

(2014) Nicholas J. Croucher et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Immune responses to pneumococcal pilus RrgA and RrgB antigens and their relationship with pneumococcal carriage in humans

(2014) Muhammad S. Ahmed et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

SRST2: Rapid genomic surveillance for public health and hospital microbiology labs

(2014) Michael Inouye et al.   Genome Medicine

Epidemiology of serotype 19A isolates from invasive pneumococcal disease in German children

(2013) Mark van der Linden et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Changes in Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 19A Invasive Infections in Children from 1993 to 2011

(2013) K. G. Hulten et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Increase of pneumococcal serotype 19A in Italy is due to expansion of the piliated clone ST416/CC199

(2013) M. Del Grosso et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal urinary antigen positivity in healthy colonized children: is it age dependent?

(2013) Zuzana Vančíková et al.   WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT

Computational Studies on the Resistance of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2B (PBP2B) of Wild-type and Mutant Strains ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeAgainst β-Lactam Antibiotics

(2012) Jothi Ramalingam et al.   Chemical Biology & Drug Design

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Streptococcus pneumoniaeR6 interspecies transformation: genetic analysis of penicillin resistance determinants and genome-wide recombination events

(2012) Julia Sauerbier et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal surface proteins: when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

(2012) I. Pérez-Dorado et al.   Molecular Oral Microbiology

Prevalence and Clonal Distribution of pcpA, psrP and Pilus-1 among Pediatric Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2012) Laura Selva et al.   PLoS One

The relationship between pneumococcal serotypes and antibiotic resistance

(2012) Jae-Hoon Song et al.   VACCINE

Shifting Genetic Structure of Invasive Serotype 19A Pneumococci in the United States

(2011) Bernard W. Beall et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Expansion and Evolution of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Spain9V-ST156 Clonal Complex in Poland

(2010) E. Sadowy et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

New adhesin functions of surface-exposed pneumococcal proteins

(2010) Cécile Frolet et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

PsrP, a Protective Pneumococcal Antigen, Is Highly Prevalent in Children with Pneumonia and Is Strongly Associated with Clonal Type

(2010) C. Munoz-Almagro et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Prevalence of pilus-encoding islets among acute otitis media Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Israel

(2010) M. Moschioni et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Genome-wide dissection of globally emergent multi-drug resistant serotype 19A Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2009) Dylan R Pillai et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on infections caused by antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2009) R. Dagan   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

PBP Active Site Flexibility as the Key Mechanism for β-Lactam Resistance in Pneumococci

(2009) Carlos Contreras-Martel et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

TheStreptococcus pneumoniaeadhesin PsrP binds to Keratin 10 on lung cells

(2009) Pooja Shivshankar et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Continued Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Carriage in Young Children

(2009) S. S. Huang et al.   PEDIATRICS

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

(2008) Sandra I Aguiar et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Population Snapshot of EmergentStreptococcus pneumoniaeSerotype 19A in the United States, 2005

(2008) Matthew R. Moore et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES