Publications

Immunization, Antibiotic Use, and Pneumococcal Colonization Over a 15-Year Period.

Author(s): Lee GM, Kleinman K, Pelton S, Lipsitch M, Huang SS, Lakoma M, Dutta-Linn M, Rett M, Hanage WP, Finkelstein JA|Journal: Pediatrics|PMID: 28978716| November 2017

Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease have declined since widespread introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in the United States. We…

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 SS|Journal: Pediatr Infect Dis J|PMID: 22173142| March 2012

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

Serotype specific invasive capacity and persistent reduction in invasive pneumococcal disease.

Author(s): Yildirim I, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Shea KM, Stevenson A, Finkelstein J, Huang SS, Lee GM, Kleinman K, Pelton SI|Journal: Vaccine|PMID: 21029807| December 2010

Defining the propensity of Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) serotypes to invade sterile body sites following nasopharyngeal (NP) acquisition has the potential…

Evidence that pneumococcal serotype replacement in Massachusetts following conjugate vaccination is now complete.

Author(s): Hanage WP, Finkelstein JA, Huang SS, Pelton SI, Stevenson AE, Kleinman K, Hinrichsen VL, Fraser C|Journal: Epidemics|PMID: 21031138| June 2010

Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) has been reduced in the US following conjugate vaccination (PCV7) targeting seven pneumococcal serotypes in 2000.…