Browsing Norwegian Institute of Public Health Open Repository by Author "Toropainen, Maija"
    • 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 ...
    • Genetic Meningococcal Antigen Typing System (gMATS): A genotyping tool that predicts 4CMenB strain coverage worldwide 

      Muzzi, Alessandro; Brozzi, Alessandro; Serino, Laura; Bodini, Margherita; Abad, Raquel; Caugant, Dominique A; Comanducci, Maurizio; Lemos, Ana Paula; Gorla, Maria Cecilia; Krizova, Pavla; Mikula, Claudia; Mulhall, Robert; Nissen, Michael; Nohynek, Hanna; Simões, Maria João; Skoczynska, Anna; Stefanelli, Paola; Taha, Muhamed-Kheir; Toropainen, Maija; Tzanakaki, Georgina; Vadivelu-Pechai, Kumaran; Watson, Philip; Vazquez, Julio A.; Rajam, Gowrisankar; Rappuoli, Rino; Borrow, Ray; Medini, Duccio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
    • Increase of invasive meningococcal serogroup W disease in Europe, 2013 to 2017 

      Krone, Manuel; Gray, Steve; Abad, Raquel; Skoczyńska, Anna; Stefanelli, Paola; van der Ende, Arie; Tzanakaki, Georgina; Mölling, Paula; Simões, Maria João; Křížová, Pavla; Emonet, Stéphane; Caugant, Dominique A; Toropainen, Maija; Vazquez, Julio; Waśko, Izabela; Knol, Mirjam J.; Jacobsson, Susanne; Bettencourt, Célia Rodrigues; Musilek, Martin; Born, Rita; Vogel, Ulrich; Borrow, Ray (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)