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Dynamic of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in children with acute otitis media following PCV7 introduction in France

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 28; Issue: 37 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.05.037

1873-2518

Robert Cohen, Corinne Lévy, É. Bonnet, Sophie Grondin, V. Desvignes, A. Lécuyer, Bernard Fritzell, Emmanuelle Varon,

Respiratory viral infections research

To determine whether the use of seven valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) caused a shift in the Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes distribution and whether it modified the resistance to antibiotics, 3291 nasopharyngeal swabs were obtained between 2001 and 2006, from children aged 6-24 months with acute otitis media. Following the implementation of PCV7, we observed a slight reduction in the overall pneumococcal carriage, a marked decrease of vaccine serotypes, an increase in non-vaccine serotypes carriage and a reduction in the carriage of penicillin non-susceptible strains. Most of the serotype 19A replacement was related to the clonal expansion of ST276 which was found to be the predominant ST among penicillin non-susceptible isolates.