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    • Changes in invasive pneumococcal disease caused by streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 following introduction of PCV10 and PCV13: findings from the PSERENADE project 

      Bennett, Julia C.; Hetrich, Marissa K.; Garcia Quesada, Maria; Sinkevitch, Jenna N.; Deloria Knoll, Maria; Feikin, Daniel R.; Zeger, Scott L.; Kagucia, Eunice W.; Cohen, Adam L.; Ampofo, Krow; Brandileone, Maria-Cristina; Bruden, Dana; Camilli, Romina; Castilla, Jesús; Chan, Guanhao; Cook, Heather; Cornick, Jennifer E.; Dagan, Ron; Dalby, Tine; Danis, Kostas; De Miguel, Sara; De Wals, Philippe; Desmet, Stefanie; Georgakopoulou, Theano; Gilkison, Charlotte; Grgic-Vitek, Marta; Hammitt, Laura L.; Hilty, Markus; Ho, Pak-Leung; Jayasinghe, Sanjay; Kellner, James D.; Kleynhans, Jackie; Knol, Mirjam J.; Kozakova, Jana; Kristinsson, Karl G.; Ladhani, Shamez N.; MacDonald, Laura; Mackenzie, Grant A.; Mad’arová, Lucia; McGeer, Allison; Mereckiene, Jolita; Morfeldt, Eva; Mungun, Tuya; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Nuort, J. Pekka; Paragi, Metka; Pilishvili, Tamara; Puentes, Rodrigo; Saha, Samir K.; Sahu Khan, Aalisha; Savrasova, Larisa; Scott, J. Anthony; Skoczynska, Anna; Suga, Shigeru; Van Der Linden, Mark; Verani, Jennifer R.; Von Gottberg, Anne; Winje, Brita A.; Yildirim, Inci; Zerouali, Khalid; Hayford, Kyla; PSERENADE Team (Microorganisms, 2021)
      Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 (ST1) was an important cause of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally before the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) containing ST1 antigen. ...
    • Development of a serum-free medium to aid large-scale production of mycoplasma-based therapies 

      Burgos, Raul; Garcia-Ramallo, Eva; Shaw, Daniel; Lluch-Senar, Maria; Serrano, Luis (Microbiology Spectrum, 2023)
      To assist in the advancement of the large-scale production of safe Mycoplasma vaccines and other Mycoplasma-based therapies, we developed a culture medium free of animal serum and other animal components ...
    • Enfermedad neumocócica invasiva en niños menores de 60 meses, antes y después de la introducción de la vacuna conjugada 13-valente 

      Martínez-Osorio, Johanna; García-García, Juan José; Moraga-Llop, Fernando; Díaz, Alvaro; Hernández, Sergi; Solé-Ribalta, Anna; González-Peris, Sebastià; Izquierdo, Conchita; Esteva, Cristina; Codina, Gemma; Planes, Ana María; Uriona, Sonia; Campins, Magda; Ciruela, Pilar; Sallera, Luis; Domínguez, Ángela; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; De Sevilla, Mariona F. (Anales de Pediatría, 2021)
      Introducción: La enfermedad neumocócica invasiva (ENI) es la infección bacteriana más relevante en niños pequeños y la introducción de las vacunas antineumocócicas conjugadas (VNC) ha cambiado su ...
    • Impact of the 13-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine on the direct costs of invasive pneumococcal disease requiring hospital admission in children aged < 5 years: a prospective study 

      Hernández, Sergi; Navas, Encarna; Aznar-Lou, Ignacio; Ciruela, Pilar; García-García, Juan José; Moraga-Llop, Fernando; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Codina, Gemma; De Sevilla, Mariona F.; González-Peris, Sebastià; Esteva, Cristina; Planes, Ana María; Izquierdo, Conchita; Martínez-Osorio, Johanna; Campins, Magda; Uriona, Sonia; Salleras, Luis; Serrano-Blanco, Antoni; Jané, Mireia; Domínguez, Ángela (Vaccines, 2020)
      The lack of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) cost studies may underestimate the eect of pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugated vaccines (PCV). The objective of this study was to estimate the direct ...
    • Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriageamong Bhutanese children hospitalizedwith clinical pneumonia: serotypes andviral co-infection 

      Jullien, Sophie; Sharma, Ragunath; Lhamu Mynak, Mimi; Henares, Desirée; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Bassat, Quique (BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020-12)
      Background: Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization (PNC) generally precedes pneumococcal disease. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of PNC and to identify the pneumococcal ...
    • Pneumococcal serotypes in children, clinical presentation and antimicrobial susceptibility in the PCV13 era 

      Izquierdo, Conchita; Ciruela, Pilar; Hernández, Sergi; García-García, Juan José; Esteva, Cristina; Moraga-Llop, Fernando; Díaz-Conradi, A.; Martínez-Osorio, Johanna; Solé-Ribalta, Anna; De Sevilla, Mariona F.; González-Peris, Sebastià; Codina, Gemma; Planes, Ana María; Uriona, Sonia; Campins, Magda; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Salleras, Luis; Domínguez, Ángela (Epidemiology and Infection, 2020-11)
      The aim was to analyse invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) serotypes in children aged ⩽17 years according to clinical presentation and antimicrobial susceptibility. We conducted a prospective study ...
    • Reduction of direct health costs associated with pertussis vaccination with acellular vaccines in children aged 0–9 years with pertussis in Catalonia (Spain) 

      Plans-Rubio, Pedro; Navas, Encarna; Godoy, Pere; Carmona, Gloria; Domínguez, Ángela; Jané, Mireia; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Brotons, Pedro (PharmacoEconomics - Open, 2019)
      Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess direct health costs in children with pertussis aged 0–9 years who were vaccinated, partially vaccinated, and unvaccinated during childhood, and to assess ...
    • Serotype and clonal distribution dynamics of invasive pneumococcal strains after PCV13 introduction (2011-2016): surveillance data from 23 sites in Catalonia, Spain 

      Ludwig, Guillermo; Garcia-Garcia, Selene; Lanaspa, Miguel; Ciruela, Pilar; Esteva, Cristina; Fernandez de Sevilla, Mariona; Diaz-Conradi, Alvaro; Marti, Carmina; Motje, Montse; Galles, Carme; Morta, Montse; Izquierdo, Conchita; Moraga-Llop, Fernando; Campins, Magda; Salleras, Luis; Jané, Mireia; Domínguez, Ángela; Garcia-Garcia, Juan Jose; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Catalan Study Group of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (PLoS One, 2020-02)
      Background: The objective of this study is to describe incidence and shifts of serotype and clonal distribution of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in four different age groups (<5 years, 5–17 ...