Seasonal changes in pneumococcal disease - Still much of an enigma

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-196

  Van Hoek, Albert Jan ^a   Miller, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co morbidity; Nasopharyngeal carriage; Pneumococcus; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MIXED INFECTION; NOTE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUMMER; WINTER; CO-MORBIDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARRIAGE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; SEASON;

CO-MORBIDITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARRIAGE; PNEUMOCOCCUS; SEASONALITY;

CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 84891776012     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit726     Document Type: Note

References (9)

1. Hippocrates. Aphorisms. Section III Available at: Http://classics.mit. edu/Hippocrates/aphorisms. 3.iii.html. Accessed 15 October 2013
2. Altizer S, Dobson A, Hosseini P, Hudson P, Pascual M, Rohani P. Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases. Ecol Lett 2006; 9:467-84
3. Weinberger, Grant LR, Steiner CA, et al. Seasonal drivers of pneumococcal disease incidence: Impact of bacterial carriage and viral activity. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 58:188-94
4. Nicoli EJ, Trotter CL, Turner KM, Colijn C, Waight P, Miller E. Influenza and RSV make a modest contribution to invasive pneumococcal disease incidence in the UK. J Infect 2013; 66:512-20
5. Syrjänen RK, Kilpi TM, Kaijalainen TH, Herva EE, Takala AK. Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Finnish children younger than 2 years olds. J Infect Dis 2001; 184:451-9
6. Hussein M, Melegaro A, Pebody RG, et al. A longitudinal household study of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal carriage in a UK setting. Epidemiol Infect 2005; 133:891-8
7. da Gloria Carvalho M, Pimenta FC, Jackson D, et al. Revisiting pneumococcal carriage by use of broth enrichment and PCR techniques for enhanced detection of carriage and serotypes. J Clin Microbiol 2010; 48:1611-8.
8. Brueggemann AB, Griffiths DT, Meats E, Peto T, Crook DW, Spratt BG. Clonal relationships between invasive and carriage Streptococcus pneumoniae and serotype-And clone-specific differences in invasive disease potential. J Infect Dis. Oxford University Press 2003; 187:1424
9. Flasche S, van Hoek AJ, Sheasby E, et al. Effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on serotype-specific carriage and invasive disease in England: A cross-sectional study. PLOS Med 2011; 8:e1001017