Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Nontypeable pneumococcal isolates among navajo and white mountain apache communities: are these really a cause of invasive disease?

Author(s): Scott JR, Hinds J, Gould KA, Millar EV, Reid R, Santosham M, O'Brien KL, Hanage WPJournal: J Infect DisPMID: 22536000 July 2012

Pneumococci could evade pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) by modifying, mutating, or deleting vaccine-serotype capsule genes or by downregulating capsule production.…

Variation at the capsule locus, cps, of mistyped and non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates.

Author(s): Salter SJ, Hinds J, Gould KA, Lambertsen L, Hanage WP, Antonio M, Turner P, Hermans PW, Bootsma HJ, O'Brien KL, Bentley SDJournal: MicrobiologyPMID: 22403189 June 2012

The capsule polysaccharide locus (cps) is the site of the capsule biosynthesis gene cluster in encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae. A set…

Pneumococcal sequence type replacement among American Indian children: a comparison of pre- and routine-PCV7 eras.

Author(s): Scott JR, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Millar EV, Moulton LH, Hinds J, Reid R, Santosham M, O'Brien KLJournal: VaccinePMID: 22094283 March 2012

Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) of pneumococcal isolates collected during an efficacy trial of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) among…

High levels of recombination among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from the Gambia.

Author(s): Donkor ES, Bishop CJ, Gould K, Hinds J, Antonio M, Wren B, Hanage WPJournal: MBioPMID: 21693638 June 2011

We carried out multilocus sequence typing (MLST) on 148 pneumococcal carriage isolates collected from children <24 months old in the…