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…
Author(s): Scott JR, Millar EV, Lipsitch M, Moulton LH, Weatherholtz R, Perilla MJ, Jackson DM, Beall B, Craig MJ, Reid R, Santosham M, O'Brien KL|Journal: J Infect Dis|PMID:22128315| January 2012
We assessed the impact of 12 years of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) use on pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and serotype-specific invasive…
Author(s): Li Y, Gierahn T, Thompson CM, Trzciński K, Ford CB, Croucher N, Gouveia P, Flechtner JB, Malley R, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS Pathog|PMID:23144610| January 2012
Antigenic variation to evade host immunity has long been assumed to be a driving force of diversifying selection in pathogens.…
Author(s): Abdullahi O, Karani A, Tigoi CC, Mugo D, Kungu S, Wanjiru E, Jomo J, Musyimi R, Lipsitch M, Scott JA|Journal: PLoS One|PMID:22363489| January 2012
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) reduce nasopharyngeal carriage of vaccine-serotype pneumococci but increase in the carriage of non-vaccine serotypes. We studied…
Author(s): Grad YH, Lipsitch M, Aiello AE|Journal: Am J Epidemiol|PMID:22085628| January 2012
Helicobacter pylori seroprevalence levels in US adults participating in the continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2000) increased with…
Author(s): Weinberger DM, Malley R, Lipsitch M|Journal: Lancet|PMID:21492929| December 2011
Vaccination with heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has significantly reduced the burden of pneumococcal disease and has had an important…