Discovery of Immunodominant B Cell Epitopes within Surface Pneumococcal Virulence Proteins in Pediatric Patients with Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

Role of Pht Proteins in Attachment of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Respiratory Epithelial Cells

(2014) Anna Kallio et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Epidemiology of Pediatric Pneumococcal Meningitis and Bacteremia in Latin America and the Caribbean

(2014) Agustín Ciapponi et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Vaccination with a Streptococcus pneumoniae trivalent recombinant PcpA, PhtD and PlyD1 protein vaccine candidate protects against lethal pneumonia in an infant murine model

(2014) David Verhoeven et al.   VACCINE

Correlation of Pneumococcal Antibody Concentration and Avidity with Patient Clinical and Immunologic Characteristics

(2013) Ari J. Fried et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Intraclonal Variations Among Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Influence the Likelihood of Invasive Disease in Children

(2013) Sarah Browall et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Polyhistidine triad proteins of pathogenic streptococci

(2012) Charles D. Plumptre et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Vaccine candidates PhtD and PhtE of Streptococcus pneumoniae are adhesins that elicit functional antibodies in humans

(2012) M. Nadeem Khan et al.   VACCINE

Impact of More Than a Decade of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Use on Carriage and Invasive Potential in Native American Communities

(2011) Jennifer R. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

(2011) N. J. Croucher et al.   SCIENCE

Immunity to pneumococcal surface proteins in children with community-acquired pneumonia: a distinct pattern of responses to pneumococcal choline-binding protein A

(2010) K.M. Posfay-Barbe et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Pediatric complicated pneumonia and pneumococcal serotype replacement: trends in hospitalized children pre and post introduction of routine vaccination with Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7)

(2010) Thea K. Chibuk et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Immunization with a ZmpB-Based Protein Vaccine Could Protect against Pneumococcal Diseases in Mice

(2010) Yi Gong et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Preclinical Evaluation of the Pht Proteins as Potential Cross-Protective Pneumococcal Vaccine Antigens

(2010) Fabrice Godfroid et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The Proline-Rich Region of Pneumococcal Surface Proteins A and C Contains Surface-Accessible Epitopes Common to All Pneumococci and Elicits Antibody-Mediated Protection against Sepsis

(2010) C. C. Daniels et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Plasminogen- and Fibronectin-binding Protein B Is Involved in the Adherence ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeto Human Epithelial Cells

(2010) Salvatore Papasergi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Transcriptional regulation, occurrence and putative role of the Pht family of Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) S. Rioux et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

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

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

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

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

Streptococcus Adherence and Colonization

(2009) A. H. Nobbs et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Pneumococcal carriage and acute otitis media induce serum antibodies to pneumococcal surface proteins CbpA and PhtD in children

(2009) Birgit Simell et al.   VACCINE

Pneumococcal histidine triad proteins are regulated by the Zn2+-dependent repressor AdcR and inhibit complement deposition through the recruitment of complement factor H

(2008) Abiodun D. Ogunniyi et al.   FASEB JOURNAL