2010
Association of Serotype with Risk of Death Due to Pneumococcal Pneumonia: A Meta-Analysis
Weinberger DM, Harboe ZB, Sanders EA, Ndiritu M, Klugman KP, Rückinger S, Dagan R, Adegbola R, Cutts F, Johnson HL, O'Brien KL, Scott JA, Lipsitch M. Association of Serotype with Risk of Death Due to Pneumococcal Pneumonia: A Meta-Analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010, 51: 692-699. PMID: 20715907, PMCID: PMC2927802, DOI: 10.1086/655828.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInvasive pneumococcal diseaseRisk of deathCarriage prevalenceHost factorsAssociation of serotypesLower comorbidity scorePooled effect estimatesStudy-specific estimatesNasopharyngeal carriage prevalenceCase fatality ratioSerotype-specific dataHigher carriage prevalenceRandom-effects methodBacteremic pneumoniaPooled RRComorbidity scorePneumococcal pneumoniaPneumococcal diseaseMeningitis patientsDisease outcomePotential confoundingPneumoniaSerotype 14Epidemiologic measuresMeta-Analysis
2009
Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence
Weinberger DM, Trzciński K, Lu YJ, Bogaert D, Brandes A, Galagan J, Anderson PW, Malley R, Lipsitch M. Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence. PLOS Pathogens 2009, 5: e1000476. PMID: 19521509, PMCID: PMC2689349, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000476.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSerotype replacementCarriage prevalenceNasopharyngeal carriageCapsular serotypesNon-vaccine serotypesNeutrophil-mediated killingNasopharyngeal carriage prevalenceCapsular polysaccharideVaccinated populationSerotype prevalenceEpidemiological patternsPrevalent serotypesStreptococcus pneumoniaeBacterial factorsParticular serotypePrevalenceImportant serotypesNovel biological principleSerotypesDifferent serotypesCarriageNeutrophilsBiological differencesKillingVaccination