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Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization after introduction of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for US adults 65 years of age and older, 2015-2016.

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Pneumococcal carriage among non-institutionalized adults ≥65 years of age was very low, and given the low vaccine-type carriage rates observed in an already high PCV13 adult coverage setting, it is difficult to attribute the findings to the direct versus indirect effects ofPCV13 on adult carriage.
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This article is published in Vaccine.The article was published on 2019-01-23 and is currently open access. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine & Quellung reaction.

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The fundamental link between pneumococcal carriage and disease

TL;DR: The use of vaccine effect on carriage as part of the vaccine licensure and post-vaccine introduction evaluation could facilitate and expand the licensure of new, life-saving pneumococcal vaccines and enable a comprehensive estimate of population effects after vaccine introduction.
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Upper respiratory tract colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae in adults

TL;DR: Plymouthococcal carriage studies in adults that collect samples from alternative respiratory sites such as the oropharynx, saliva, or nasal wash; are culture-enriched for pneumococcus; and use molecular diagnostic methods designed to target two pneumococcal DNA sequences should enhance pneumitiscal detection in the adult respiratory tract are found.
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The low carriage prevalence of pneumococcus among community-dwelling older people: A cross-sectional study in Japan

TL;DR: The data suggest a low carriage prevalence of S. pneumoniae among community-dwelling older people in Japan, and among the pneumococcal-positive participants, 18.2% were PCV13-covered serotypes.
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Nonpneumococcal Strains Recently Recovered from Carriage Specimens and Expressing Capsular Serotypes Highly Related or Identical to Pneumococcal Serotypes 2, 4, 9A, 13, and 23A.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe 9 nonpneumococcal strains carrying close homologs of pneumococcal capsular biosynthetic (cps) loci that were discovered during recent pneumoccal carriage studies of adults in the United States and Kenya.
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The Human Oral Microbiome

TL;DR: The HOMD is the first curated description of a human-associated microbiome and provides tools for use in understanding the role of the microbiome in health and disease.
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