Publications

Surveillance of pneumococcal colonization and invasive pneumococcal disease reveals shift in prevalent carriage serotypes in Massachusetts’ children to relatively low invasiveness.

Author(s): Yildirim I, Little BA, Finkelstein J, Lee G, Hanage WP, Shea K, Pelton SI, T., he Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health.|Journal: Vaccine|PMID: 28645717| July 2017

Following the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), overall nasopharyngeal colonization rates have not changed significantly, however a dramatic and…

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 R|Journal: Vaccine|PMID: 20434550| July 2010

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