2021
Serotype 1 pneumococcus: epidemiology, genomics, and disease mechanisms
Chaguza C, Yang M, Jacques L, Bentley S, Kadioglu A. Serotype 1 pneumococcus: epidemiology, genomics, and disease mechanisms. Trends In Microbiology 2021, 30: 581-592. PMID: 34949516, PMCID: PMC7613904, DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.11.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchComplete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain BVJ1JL, a Serotype 1 Carriage Isolate from Malawi
Betts M, Jarvis S, Jeffries A, Gori A, Chaguza C, Msefula J, Weight CM, Kwambana-Adams B, French N, Swarthout TD, Brown JS, Heyderman RS. Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain BVJ1JL, a Serotype 1 Carriage Isolate from Malawi. Microbiology Resource Announcements 2021, 10: e00715-21. PMID: 34591678, PMCID: PMC8483660, DOI: 10.1128/mra.00715-21.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Lower Density and Shorter Duration of Nasopharyngeal Carriage by Pneumococcal Serotype 1 (ST217) May Explain Its Increased Invasiveness over Other Serotypes
Bricio-Moreno L, Chaguza C, Yahya R, Shears RK, Cornick JE, Hokamp K, Yang M, Neill DR, French N, Hinton JCD, Everett DB, Kadioglu A. Lower Density and Shorter Duration of Nasopharyngeal Carriage by Pneumococcal Serotype 1 (ST217) May Explain Its Increased Invasiveness over Other Serotypes. MBio 2020, 11: e00814-20. PMID: 33293378, PMCID: PMC7733939, DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00814-20.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInvasive pneumococcal diseaseNasopharyngeal carriageSerotype 1Invasive diseaseDisease progressionPneumococcal strainsInvasive pneumococcal disease casesQueen Elizabeth Central HospitalMajor causePneumococcal disease casesPneumococcal serotype 1Health care systemPneumococcal diseaseCentral HospitalVaccine efficacyInvasive infectionsInvasive pneumoniaCommon causeMurine modelMouse modelDisease casesCarrier stateHuman nasopharynxPneumoniaRNA sequencing analysis