The PneuCarriage Project: A Multi-Centre Comparative Study to Identify the Best Serotyping Methods for Examining Pneumococcal Carriage in Vaccine Evaluation Studies

• Main Authors: Catherine Satzke, Eileen M. Dunne, Barbara D. Porter, Keith P. Klugman, E. Kim Mulholland, Jorge E. Vidal, Fuminori Sakai, Janet E. Strachan, Deborah C. Hay Burgess, Douglas Holtzman, K. Boelsen, Maha Habib, Jayne Manning, Belinda D. Ortika, Casey L. Pell, Jenna A. Smyth, Martin Antonio, Katherine L. O’Brien, Roy M. Robins-Browne, J. Anthony Scott, Samir K. Saha, Fiona M. Russell, Andrew R. Greenhill, Deborah Lehmann, Peter V. Adrian, Shabir A. Madhi, Lorry G. Rubin, Atqia Rizvi, Jason Hinds, Katherine A. Gould, Fanrong Kong, Shahin Oftadeh, Gwendolyn L. Gilbert, Lu Feng, Boyang Cao, Gláucia Paranhos-Baccalà, Jean Noel Telles, Mélina Messaoudi, Ray Borrow, Elaine Stanford, Robert George, Carmen Sheppard, Silvio D. Brugger, Kathrin Mühlemann, Markus Hilty, Ismar A. Rivera-Olivero, Jacobus H. de Waard, Bambos M. Charalambous, Marcus H. Leung, Chiara Azzari, Maria Moriondo, Francesco Nieddu, Peter W.M. Hermans, Christa E. van der Gaast-de Jongh, Paul Turner, David J. Ecker, Rangarajan Sampath
• Other Authors: Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/36279
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2015 Satzke et al. Background: The pneumococcus is a diverse pathogen whose primary niche is the nasopharynx. Over 90 different serotypes exist, and nasopharyngeal carriage of multiple serotypes is common. Understanding pneumococcal carriage is essential for evaluating the impact of pneumococcal v...