ReviewVaccine2013
Standard method for detecting upper respiratory carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae: updated recommendations from the World Health Organization Pneumococcal Carriage Working Group.
Review in Vaccine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 289 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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289 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Upper airways colonisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae in adults aged 60 years and older: A systematic review of prevalence and individual participant data meta-analysis of risk factors.The Journal of infection · 2020Pooled it
- Natural Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Associated With Increased Experimental Pneumococcal Carriage but Reduced Conjugate Vaccine Efficacy in a Human Challenge Model.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Trial
- Effect of a Reduced PCV10 Dose Schedule on Pneumococcal Carriage in Vietnam.The New England journal of medicine · 2024Trial
- Efficacy against pneumococcal carriage and the immunogenicity of reduced-dose (0 + 1 and 1 + 1) PCV10 and PCV13 schedules in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2023Trial
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- Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage and antibiotic susceptibility among Indonesian pilgrims during the Hajj pilgrimage in 2015.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Differences in Pneumococcal andFrontiers in immunology · 2021Trial
- Diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia using quantitative PCR targeting lytA and piaB in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026Article
- Genomic surveillance of post-immunization pneumococcal carriage in Ghana.Microbial genomics · 2026Article
- Epidemiological, immunological and virulence characteristics of persistent Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine serotypes following vaccine introduction.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Post-Vaccination Surveillance of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Ghana.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Genomic and phenotypic characterization of a multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae 19 F ST320 isolate from a pediatric SARS-CoV-2 case in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Digital PCR linkage analysis resolvesMicrobiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Serotype diversity and risk factors for pneumococcal carriage among healthy children in Klang Valley, Malaysia: A pre-vaccination cross-sectional study.IJID regions · 2026Article
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- Non-Vaccine Serotype Replacement and Subdominant Persistence of Vaccine Types in Nepalese Infants Following PCV10 Introduction.Vaccines · 2026Article
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Abstract
In 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a working group and published a set of standard methods for studies measuring nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus). The working group recently reconvened under the auspices of the WHO and updated the consensus standard methods. These methods describe the collection, transport and storage of nasopharyngeal samples, as well as provide recommendations for the identification and serotyping of pneumococci using culture and non-culture based approaches. We outline the consensus position of the working group, the evidence supporting this position, areas worthy of future research, and the epidemiological role of carriage studies. Adherence to these methods will reduce variability in the conduct of pneumococcal carriage studies undertaken in the context of pneumococcal vaccine trials, implementation studies, and epidemiology studies more generally so variability in methodology does not confound the interpretation of study findings.
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