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ArticleScientific reports2022

Changes in serotype prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Southampton, UK between 2006 and 2018.

David W Cleary, Jessica Jones, Rebecca A Gladstone, Karen L Osman, Vanessa T Devine, Johanna M Jefferies, Stephen D Bentley, Saul N Faust, Stuart C Clarke

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

David W ClearyFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Jessica JonesFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Rebecca A GladstoneParasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
Karen L OsmanFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Vanessa T DevineFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Johanna M JefferiesFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Stephen D BentleyParasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
Saul N FaustFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
Stuart C ClarkeFaculty of Medicine & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. S.C.Clarke@soton.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Streptococcus pneumoniae continues to cause significant disease burden. Whilst pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) have substantially reduced this burden, serotype replacement partially negates this success due to increased disease associated with non-vaccine serotypes (NVTs). Continued surveillance is therefore essential to provide crucial epidemiological data. Annual cross-sectional surveillance of paediatric pneumococcal carriage was started in Southampton, UK following PCV7 roll-out in 2006. Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from children < 5 years old each winter (October to March) from 2006/07 and for each consecutive year until 2017/18. Pneumococcal serotype was inferred from whole genome sequencing data. A total of 1429 (32.5%) pneumococci were isolated from 4093 children. Carriage ranged from 27.8% (95%CI 23.7-32.7) in 2008/09 to 37.9% (95%CI 32.8-43.2) in 2014/15. Analyses showed that carriage increased in children aged 24-35 months (p < 0.001) and 47-60 months (p < 0.05). Carriage of PCV serotypes decreased markedly following PCV7 and/or PCV13 introduction, apart from serotype 3 where the relative frequency was slightly lower post-PCV13 (pre-PCV13 n = 7, 1.67%; post-PCV13 n = 13, 1.27%). Prevalence of NVTs implicated in increased disease was low with 24F (n = 19, 1.4%) being the most common followed by 9N (n = 11, 0.8%), 8 (n = 7, 0.5%) and 12F (n = 3, 0.2%).

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Pneumococcal InfectionsStreptococcus pneumoniaeCarrier StateChildChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesHumansInfantNasopharynxPneumococcal VaccinesPrevalenceSerogroupUnited KingdomVaccines, ConjugatePneumococcal VaccinesVaccines, Conjugate

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PMCPMC9349173

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