Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Pneumococcal carriage and antibiotic resistance in young children before 13-valent conjugate vaccine.

Author(s): Wroe PC, Lee GM, Finkelstein JA, Pelton SI, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Stevenson AE, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman K, Dutta-Linn MM, Hinrichsen VL, Lakoma M, Huang SSJournal: Pediatr Infect Dis JPMID: 22173142 March 2012

We sought to measure trends in Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage and antibiotic resistance in young children in Massachusetts communities after widespread…

Clonal replacement among 19A Streptococcus pneumoniae in Massachusetts, prior to 13 valent conjugate vaccination.

Author(s): Hanage WP, Bishop CJ, Lee GM, Lipsitch M, Stevenson A, Rifas-Shiman SL, Pelton SI, Huang SS, Finkelstein JAJournal: VaccinePMID: 21964059 November 2011

As part of an ongoing study of the response of the Streptococcus pneumoniae population to conjugate vaccination, we applied multi-locus…

Re-emergence of the type 1 pilus among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Massachusetts, USA.

Author(s): Regev-Yochay G, Hanage WP, Trzciński K, Rifas-Shiman SL, Lee G, Bessolo A, Huang SS, Pelton SI, McAdam AJ, Finkelstein JA, Lipsitch M, Malley RJournal: VaccinePMID: 20434550 July 2010

Pneumococcal type 1 pilus proteins have been proposed as potential vaccine candidates. Following conjugate pneumococcal vaccination, the prevalence of the…