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Impact of viral upper respiratory tract infection on the concentration of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage among Kenyan children

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Morpeth, Susan C., Munywoki, Patrick, Hammitt, Laura L., Bett, Anne, Bottomley, Christian, Onyango, Clayton O., Murdoch, David R., Nokes, D. James and Scott, J. Anthony G. (2018) Impact of viral upper respiratory tract infection on the concentration of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage among Kenyan children. Scientific Reports, 8 (1). 11030. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29119-w

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Abstract

Viral upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) predisposes to bacterial pneumonia possibly by facilitating growth of bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae colonising the nasopharynx. We investigated whether viral URTI is temporally associated with an increase in nasopharyngeal pneumococcal concentration. Episodes of symptomatic RSV or rhinovirus URTI among children <5 years were identified from a longitudinal household study in rural Kenya. lytA and alu PCR were performed on nasopharyngeal samples collected twice-weekly, to measure the pneumococcal concentration adjusted for the concentration of human DNA present. Pneumococcal concentration increased with a fold-change of 3.80 (95%CI 1.95–7.40), with acquisition of RSV or rhinovirus, during 51 URTI episodes among 42 children. In repeated swabs from the baseline period, in the two weeks before URTI developed, within-episode variation was broad; within +/−112-fold range of the geometric mean. We observed only a small increase in nasopharyngeal pneumococcal concentration during RSV or rhinovirus URTI, relative to natural variation. Other factors, such as host response to viral infection, may be more important than nasopharyngeal pneumococcal concentration in determining risk of invasive disease.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Respiratory infections in children -- Kenya, Pneumonia in children, Nasopharynx, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
Journal or Publication Title: Scientific Reports
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 2045-2322
Official Date: 23 July 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
23 July 2018Published
2 July 2018Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 31 July 2018
Volume: 8
Number: 1
Article Number: 11030
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29119-w
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
098532Wellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269
090853Wellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269
UNSPECIFIEDGAVI Alliancehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100001125

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