Pavla Krizova

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: 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.

TL;DR: The incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by all serotypes decreased due to a decline in the incidence of vaccine serotypes, which suggests serotype replacement.

TL;DR: Each country should continue to be monitored for changes in major disease-causing serogroups in order to inform vaccine and control policies and laboratory capacity should be appropriately scaled up to more accurately understand local epidemiology and disease burden.

TL;DR: The Meningococcal Antigen Typing System (MATS) was developed to identify meningococcus group B strains with a high likelihood of being covered by the 4CMenB vaccine, but is limited by the requirement for viable isolates from culture confirmed cases as discussed by the authors.