Toleman, Michelle S. Herbert, Katharine McCarthy, Noel Church, David N.
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Supportive Care in Cancer
PurposeDespite substantial morbidity and mortality of influenza and pneumococcal infections in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy, vaccination against both illnesses is infrequent. We evaluated the impact of implementation of clinical guidelines on vaccination of chemotherapy patients treated in our institute.MethodsWe performed a prospectiv...
van de Beek, D Cabellos, C Dzupova, O Esposito, S Klein, M Kloek, A T Leib, S L Mourvillier, B Ostergaard, C Pagliano, P
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Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
González, Roser Armadans, Lluís Rodrigo, José Ángel Campins, Magda
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Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Children with certain conditions are at risk of developing pneumococcal disease, including invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). The aim of this study is to estimate admission rates for IPD in children with risk conditions in Catalonia, and to describe their characteristics....
Deng, Xianding Peirano, Gisele Schillberg, Erin Mazzulli, Tony Gray-Owen, Scott D Wylie, John L Robinson, D Ashley Mahmud, Salaheddin M Pillai, Dylan R
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Whole-genome sequencing revealed an independent emergence and secondary adaptation of a new virulent and drug-resistant pneumococcal epidemic clone. Ongoing molecular surveillance is required, and measures to prevent its spread should be developed.
Regaieg, K Baccouche, N Souissi, B Bahloul, M Bouaziz, M
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Medecine et maladies infectieuses
Krenke, Katarzyna Urbankowska, Emilia Urbankowski, Tomasz Lange, Joanna Kulus, Marek
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Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy
A significant increase in the incidence of PPE/PE in children with CAP treated in our institution in the last twelve years was found. S. pneumoniae was the most common causative microorganism. Antibiotic therapy with chest drain insertion ± intrapleural fibrinolysis is an effective treatment of PPE/PE and surgical intervention is seldom necessary. ...
Slinger, Robert Duval, Melanie Langill, Jonathan Bromwich, Matthew MacCormick, Johnna Chan, Francis Vaccani, Jean-Philippe
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BMC Research Notes
BackgroundOtitis media with effusion (OME) causes significant morbidity in children, but the causes of OME and methods for prevention are unclear. To look for potential infectious etiologies, we performed a pilot study using multiple-target real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) for 27 infectious agents, including nine bacterial organisms and 1...
Jin, Ping Wu, Lijuan Oftadeh, Shahin Kudinha, Timothy Kong, Fanrong Zeng, Qiyi
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BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundChina is one of ten countries with the highest prevalence rate of pneumococcal infections. However, there is limited serotype surveillance data for Streptococcus pneumoniae, especially from the community or rural regions, partly due to limited serotyping capacity because Quellung serotyping is only available in few centers in China. The a...
Cleary, David W Devine, Vanessa T Jefferies, Johanna M C Webb, Jeremy S Bentley, Stephen D Gladstone, Rebecca A Faust, Saul N Clarke, Stuart C
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Genome biology and evolution
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of meningitis, sepsis, and pneumonia worldwide. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have been part of the United Kingdom's childhood immunization program since 2006 and have significantly reduced the incidence of disease due to vaccine efficacy in reducing carriage in the population. Here we isolated two clones...
Hu, Jiayu Sun, Xiaodong Huang, Zhuoying Wagner, Abram L. Carlson, Bradley Yang, Jianping Tang, Suwen Li, Yunyi Boulton, Matthew L. Yuan, Zhengan
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundThe bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) are leading causes of childhood pneumonia and meningitis and are major contributors to worldwide mortality in children younger than 5 years of age. Asymptomatic nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococcus and Hib was determined for healthy children in...