Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Estimating the contribution of different age strata to vaccine serotype pneumococcal transmission in the pre vaccine era: a modelling study.

Author(s): Flasche S, Lipsitch M, Ojal J, Pinsent AJournal: BMC MedPMID: 32517683 June 2020

Herd protection through interruption of transmission has contributed greatly to the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) and may enable…

Exploring the role of competition induced by non-vaccine serotypes for herd protection following pneumococcal vaccination.

Author(s): Masala GL, Lipsitch M, Bottomley C, Flasche SJournal: J R Soc InterfacePMID: 29093131 November 2017

The competitive pressure from non-vaccine serotypes may have helped pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) to limit vaccine-type (VT) serotype prevalence. We…

Prediction of serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease in unvaccinated and vaccinated populations.

Author(s): Weinberger DM, Harboe ZB, Flasche S, Scott JA, Lipsitch MJournal: EpidemiologyPMID: 21646962 March 2011

Before the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar-7), the relative prevalence of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae was fairly…