• External Quality Assurance for Laboratory Identification and Capsular Typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae 

      Slotved, Hans-Christian; Sheppard, Carmen L.; Dalby, Trine; van der Ende, Arie; Fry, Norman K.; Morfeldt, Eva; Nyholm, Outi; Rokney, Assaf; Ron, Merav; Siira, Lotta; Scott, Kevin J.; Smith, Andrew; Thom, Louise; Toropainen, Maija; VESTRHEIM, DIDRIK FRIMANN (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      An external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for pneumococcal serotype identification has been performed over a period of 11 years, by a network of European pneumococcal reference laboratories. We report the results from ...
    • International links between Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine serotype 4 sequence type (ST) 801 in Northern European shipyard outbreaks of invasive pneumococcal disease 

      Gladstone, Rebecca Ashley; Siira, Lotta; Brynildsrud, Ola Brønstad; Vestrheim, Didrik Frimann; Turner, Paul; Clarke, S.C.; Srifuengfung, S.; Ford, R.; Lehmann, D.; Egorova, E.; Voropaeva, E.; Haraldsson, G.; Kristinsson, K.G.; McGee, L.; Breiman, Robert F.; Bentley, S.D.; Sheppard, Carmen L.; Fry, N.K.; Corander, Jukka; Toropainen, M.; Steens, Anneke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: Pneumococcal disease outbreaks of vaccine preventable serotype 4 sequence type (ST)801 in shipyards have been reported in several countries. We aimed to use genomics to establish any international links between ...