What are the consequences of the disappearing human microbiota?

MJ Blaser, S Falkow - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009‏ - nature.com
Humans and our ancestors have evolved since the most ancient times with a commensal
microbiota. The conservation of indicator species in a niche-specific manner across all of the …

Pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of pneumococcal pneumonia

T van der Poll, SM Opal - The Lancet, 2009‏ - thelancet.com
Pneumococcus remains the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia
worldwide. Streptococcus pneumoniae is well adapted to people, and is a frequent …

Pneumococcal vaccination strategies. An update and perspective

AC Berical, D Harris, CS Dela Cruz… - Annals of the American …, 2016‏ - atsjournals.org
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important global pathogen that causes a wide range of
clinical disease in children and adults. Pneumococcal pneumonia is by far the common …

Interleukin-17A mediates acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization

YJ Lu, J Gross, D Bogaert, A Finn, L Bagrade… - PLoS …, 2008‏ - journals.plos.org
Although anticapsular antibodies confer serotype-specific immunity to pneumococci,
children increase their ability to clear colonization before these antibodies appear …

Pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide structure predicts serotype prevalence

DM Weinberger, K Trzciński, YJ Lu, D Bogaert… - PLoS …, 2009‏ - journals.plos.org
There are 91 known capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The nasopharyngeal
carriage prevalence of particular serotypes is relatively stable worldwide, but the host and …

Streptococcus pneumoniae: epidemiology, risk factors, and strategies for prevention

JP Lynch, GG Zhanel - Seminars in respiratory and critical care …, 2009‏ - thieme-connect.com
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia,
meningitis, and bacteremia in children and adults. Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) …

Mechanisms of Naturally Acquired Immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae

E Ramos-Sevillano, G Ercoli, JS Brown - Frontiers in immunology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
In this review we give an update on the mechanisms of naturally acquired immunity against
Streptococcus pneumoniae, one of the major human bacterial pathogens that is a common …

Niche and neutral effects of acquired immunity permit coexistence of pneumococcal serotypes

S Cobey, M Lipsitch - Science, 2012‏ - science.org
Over 90 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a common nasopharyngeal
colonizer and major cause of pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis, are known. It is …

A Longitudinal Study of Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage in a Cohort of Infants and Their Mothers on the Thailand-Myanmar Border

P Turner, C Turner, A Jankhot, N Helen, SJ Lee… - PloS one, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Pneumococcal disease is a major cause of childhood death. Almost a third of
the world's children live in Southeast Asia, but there are few data from the region on …

Interim results of an ecological experiment—conjugate vaccination against the pneumococcus and serotype replacement

WP Hausdorff, WP Hanage - Human vaccines & …, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Streptococcus pneumoniae has more than 95 serotypes, each of which presumably can
cause sepsis, meningitis, pneumonia, and acute otitis media. Pneumococcal conjugate …