Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in healthy Norwegian children attending day-care centres

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 510-514

  Sogstad, M K R ^a   Aaberge, I S ^a   Sordal J O ^b   Hoiby E A ^a   Froholm L O ^a   Alme, A R ^a   Caugant, D A ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b Linnerud Legesenter   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY CARE; DISEASE CARRIER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE;

CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; NORWAY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SCHOOLS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33747365875     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-006-0177-0     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Gray BM, Converse GM III, Dillon HC Jr (1980) Epidemiologic studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae in infants: acquisition, carriage, and infection during the first 24 months of life. J Infect Dis 142:923-933
2. Syrjanen RK, Kilpi TM, Kaijalainen TH, Herva EE, Takala AK (2001) Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Finnish children younger than 2 years old. J Infect Dis 184:451-459
3. Principi N, Marchisio P, Schito GC, Mannelli S (1999) Risk factors for carriage of respiratory pathogens in the nasopharynx of healthy children. Ascanius Project Collaborative Group. Pediatr Infect Dis J 18:517-523
4. Pedersen MK, Høiby EA, Frøholm LO, Hasseltvedt V, Lermark G, Caugant DA (2004) Systemic pneumococcal disease in Norway 1995-2001: capsular serotypes and antimicrobial resistance. Epidemiol Infect 132:167-175
5. Obaro SK, Adegbola RA, Banya WA, Greenwood BM (1996) Carriage of pneumococci after pneumococcal vaccination. Lancet 348:271-272
6. Dagan R, Givon-Lavi N, Zamir O, Fraser D (2003) Effect of a nonavalent conjugate vaccine on carriage of antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in day-care centers. Pediatr Infect Dis J 22:532-540
7. Enright MC, Spratt BG (1998) A multilocus sequence typing scheme for Streptococcus pneumoniae: identification of clones associated with serious invasive disease. Microbiology 144:3049-3060
8. Borres MP, Alestig K, Krantz I, Larsson P, Norvenius G, Stenqvist K (2000) Carriage of penicillin-susceptible and non-susceptible pneumococci in healthy young children in Goteborg, Sweden. J Infect 40:141-144
9. Sulikowska A, Grzesiowski P, Sadowy E, Fiett J, Hryniewicz W (2004) Characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis isolated from the nasopharynges of asymptomatic children and molecular analysis of S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae strain replacement in the nasopharynx. J Clin Microbiol 42:3942-3949
10. Hussain M, Melegaro A, Pebody RG, George R, Edmunds WJ, Talukdar R, Martin SA, Efstratiou A, Miller E (2005) A longitudinal household study of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal carriage in a UK setting. Epidemiol Infect 133:891-898
11. Frazao N, Brito-Avo A, Simas C, Saldanha J, Mato R, Nunes S, Sousa NG, Carrico JA, Almeida JS, Santos-Sanches I, de Lencastre H (2005) Effect of the seven-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine on carriage and drug resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in healthy children attending day-care centers in Lisbon. Pediatr Infect Dis J 24:243-252
12. Gray BM, Turner ME, Dillon HC Jr (1982) Epidemiologic studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae in infants. The effects of season and age on pneumococcal acquisition and carriage in the first 24 months of life. Am J Epidemiol 116:692-703
13. Obaro S, Adegbola R (2002) The pneumococcus: carriage, disease and conjugate vaccines. J Med Microbiol 51:98-104
14. Whitney CG, Farley MM, Hadler J, Harrison LH, Bennett NM, Lynfield R, Reingold A, Cieslak PR, Pilishvili T, Jackson D, Facklam RR, Jorgensen JH, Schuchat A, Active Bacterial Core Surveillance of the Emerging Infections Program Network (2003) Decline in invasive pneumococcal disease after the introduction of protein-polysaccharide conjugate vaccine. N Engl J Med 348:1737-1746
15. Dagan R, Muallem M, Melamed R, Leroy O, Yagupsky P (1997) Reduction of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in early infancy after immunization with tetravalent pneumococcal vaccines conjugated to either tetanus toxoid or diphtheria toxoid. Pediatr Infect Dis J 16:1060-1064