Merav Ron

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 results show that comparable serotyping data can be obtained in different laboratories and the EQA is helpful when new technologies are introduced, and reveal limitations of both genotypic and phenotypic methods.

TL;DR: This is the first description of a fatal streptococcosis in sandbar sharks, and available sequences publicly accessible databases and phylogenetic analysis suggest that the S. agalactiae isolated in this case is closely related to fish and human isolates.

TL;DR: It is suggested that screening close family members for asymptomatic GAS carriage should be performed early as a part of infection prevention measures, as doing so would have significant utility in saving time and resources related to a full epidemiological inquiry.

TL;DR: This is the first widespread Sp2 outbreak since PCV13 introduction worldwide, caused by the emerging ST-13578 clone, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms-dense regions support a hypothesis that the ST- 13578 outbreak clone evolved from ST-1504 by recombination.