Effect of Vaccination on Pneumococci Isolated from the Nasopharynx of Healthy Children and the Middle Ear of Children with Otitis Media in Iceland-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Effect of Vaccination on Pneumococci Isolated from the Nasopharynx of Healthy Children and the Middle Ear of Children with Otitis Media in Iceland

Published:2018-12 Issue:12 Volume:56 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Quirk Sigríður J.¹²³,Haraldsson Gunnsteinn¹²³,Erlendsdóttir Helga¹²³,Hjálmarsdóttir Martha Á.¹²³,van Tonder Andries J.⁴,Hrafnkelsson Birgir⁵,Sigurdsson Samuel¹,Bentley Stephen D.⁴,Haraldsson Ásgeir¹⁶,Brueggemann Angela B.⁷⁸,Kristinsson Karl G.¹²³

Affiliation:

1. University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavík, Iceland

2. Landspitali University Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Reykjavík, Iceland

3. BioMedical Centre of the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

4. Parasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

5. University of Iceland, Department of Mathematics, Reykjavik, Iceland

6. Children's Hospital Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

7. Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

8. Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

Vaccination with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) disrupts the pneumococcal population. Our aim was to determine the impact of the 10-valent PCV on the serotypes, genetic lineages, and antimicrobial susceptibility of pneumococci isolated from children in Iceland.

Funder

Glaxo Smith Kline Biologicals

Landspitali University Hospital Research Fund

The Eimskip University Fund

The Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship

Oxford University | John Fell Fund, University of Oxford

The Wellcome Trust

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

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