Author(s): Willems RJ, Top J, van Schaik W, Leavis H, Bonten M, Sirén J, Hanage WP, Corander J|Journal: MBio|PMID:22807567| July 2012
Enterococcus faecium has recently emerged as an important multiresistant nosocomial pathogen. Defining population structure in this species is required to…
Author(s): Scott JR, Hinds J, Gould KA, Millar EV, Reid R, Santosham M, O'Brien KL, Hanage WP|Journal: J Infect Dis|PMID:22536000| July 2012
Pneumococci could evade pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) by modifying, mutating, or deleting vaccine-serotype capsule genes or by downregulating capsule production.…
Author(s): Lipsitch M, Abdullahi O, DʼAmour A, Xie W, Weinberger DM, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Scott JA|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID:22441543| July 2012
There are more than 90 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, with varying biologic and epidemiologic properties. Animal studies suggest that carriage…
Author(s): Van Kerkhove MD, Riley S, Lipsitch M, Guan Y, Monto AS, Webster RG, Zambon M, Nicoll A, Peiris JS, Ferguson NM|Journal: Science|PMID:22723396| June 2012
A better understanding of the severity of H5N1 in humans is needed. Wang et al. (Brevia, 23 March 2012, p.…