Carmen Muñoz-Almagro

TL;DR: Since the introduction of PCV7 for children, there has been an emergence of IPD caused by virulent clones of non-PCV7 serotypes that has been associated with significant clinical changes and a decrease in antibiotic resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the incidence of invasive disease due to these pathogens during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and found that containment policies and public information campaigns likely reduced transmission of S pneumoniae, H influenzae, and N meningitidis, leading to a significant reduction in lifethreatening invasive diseases in many countries worldwide.

TL;DR: The development and clinical evaluation of real-time PCR-based assays to detect the pneumococcal capsular wzg gene of all serotypes tested are reported here, and 24 of them have been identified in clinical specimens.

TL;DR: Increased incidence is principally due to highly invasive nonvaccine serotypes of pneumococci, especially serotype 1.

TL;DR: Overall IPD incidence in older adults decreased moderately after five childhood PCV10/13 years in 13 European sites, and decision-making on pneumococcal vaccination for older adults must consider the indirect effects of Childhood PCV programmes.