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Pneumococcal carriage and antibiotic resistance in young children before 13-valent conjugate vaccine.

Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (impact factor: 3.58). 12/2011; 31(3):249-54. DOI:10.1097/INF.0b013e31824214ac pp.249-54
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ABSTRACT We sought to measure trends in Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage and antibiotic resistance in young children in Massachusetts communities after widespread adoption of heptavalent 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) and before the introduction of the 13-valent PCV (PCV13).
We conducted a cross-sectional study including collection of questionnaire data and nasopharyngeal specimens among children aged <7 years in primary care practices from 8 Massachusetts communities during the winter season of 2008-2009 and compared with similar studies performed in 2001, 2003-2004, and 2006-2007. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and serotyping were performed on pneumococcal isolates, and risk factors for colonization in recent seasons (2006-2007 and 2008-2009) were evaluated.
We collected nasopharyngeal specimens from 1011 children, 290 (29%) of whom were colonized with pneumococcus. Non-PCV7 serotypes accounted for 98% of pneumococcal isolates, most commonly 19A (14%), 6C (11%), and 15B/C (11%). In 2008-2009, newly targeted PCV13 serotypes accounted for 20% of carriage isolates and 41% of penicillin-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae. In multivariate models, younger age, child care, young siblings, and upper respiratory illness remained predictors of pneumococcal carriage, despite near-complete serotype replacement. Only young age and child care were significantly associated with penicillin-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae carriage.
Serotype replacement post-PCV7 is essentially complete and has been sustained in young children, with the relatively virulent 19A being the most common serotype. Predictors of carriage remained similar despite serotype replacement. PCV13 may reduce 19A and decrease antibiotic-resistant strains, but monitoring for new serotype replacement is warranted.

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    Susan S Huang, Richard Platt, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Stephen I Pelton, Donald Goldmann, Jonathan A Finkelstein
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Keywords

13-valent PCV
 
8 Massachusetts communities
 
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
 
child care
 
common serotype
 
cross-sectional study
 
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heptavalent 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
 
near-complete serotype replacement
 
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Non-PCV7 serotypes
 
penicillin-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae
 
primary care practices
 
questionnaire data
 
risk factors
 
Serotype replacement post-PCV7
 
upper respiratory illness
 
virulent 19A
 
young children
 
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