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 JA|Journal: Vaccine|PMID: 21964059| November 2011 As part of an ongoing study of the response of the Streptococcus pneumoniae population to conjugate vaccination, we applied multi-locus…
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 WP|Journal: MBio|PMID: 21693638| June 2011 We carried out multilocus sequence typing (MLST) on 148 pneumococcal carriage isolates collected from children <24 months old in the…
Carried pneumococci in Massachusetts children: the contribution of clonal expansion and serotype switching. Author(s): Hanage WP, Bishop CJ, Huang SS, Stevenson AE, Pelton SI, Lipsitch M, Finkelstein JA|Journal: Pediatr Infect Dis J|PMID: 21085049| April 2011 Vaccination against 7 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae has led to the near extinction of vaccine serotypes in both disease and…
