Acquisition and invasiveness of different serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae in young children.

Abstract:

:Rates of acquisition and mean duration of nasal carriage of different serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae have been estimated by fitting a stochastic model to longitudinal carriage data in children from Papua New Guinea. Immunogenicity and two indices of relative invasiveness were determined for each serotype. Immunogenic serotypes were less frequently acquired and were carried for shorter periods, but no relationship between immunogenicity and invasiveness was apparent using either index of invasiveness. Frequent invasion was associated with a high acquisition rate and high frequency and prolonged duration of carriage. Carriage studies can provide a broad indication of which serotypes cause invasive disease but not the proportion of disease due to individual serotypes; some serotypes which cause invasive disease (e.g. serotype 46) are not found even in extensive carriage studies. The antibiotic resistance of carriage organisms, however, does approximate the resistance patterns of invasive organisms and thus may be used to monitor changing patterns of antimicrobial susceptibility in the community.

journal_name

Epidemiol Infect

authors

Smith T,Lehmann D,Montgomery J,Gratten M,Riley ID,Alpers MP

doi

10.1017/s0950268800056648

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-08-01 00:00:00

pages

27-39

issue

1

eissn

0950-2688

issn

1469-4409

journal_volume

111

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