Poster Präsentationen

ESCMID Global, Congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), Vienna, Austria, 11 – 15 April 2025

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Implications of recently revised pneumococcal vaccination recommendation for adults in Germany. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek

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COMPARISON OF STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE SEROTYPES BETWEEN CHILDREN WITH PAEDIATRIC PARAPNEUMONIC PLEURAL EFFUSIONS/EMPYEMA AND OTHER INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASES – RESULTS FROM TWO NATIONWIDE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS (GERMANY, 2010/11-2023/24). A. Streng, A. Itzek, J. Forster, S. Blomenkamp, C. Schoen, J. Liese,M. van der Linden, on behalf of the German Pediatric Surveillance Unit (GPSU).

42st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Copenhagen, Denmark, 20 - 24 May 2024

E-Poster
THE IRIS CONSORTIUM REVEALS AN OVERALL RETURN TOWARD PRE-PANDEMIC RATES OF INVASIVE DISEASE CAUSED BY HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE IN 19 COUNTRIES/TERRITORIES ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS. David Shaw, Noel D McCarthy, Keith A Jolley, Martin CJ Maiden, Mark PG van der Linden, Angela B Brueggemann, The IRIS Consortium.

13th Meeting of the International Society of Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-13), Cape Town, South Africa, 17 - 20 March 2024.

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ALTERED SEROTYPE DISTRIBUTIONS IN IPD DURING THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC IN GERMANY. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek.

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POST-PANDEMIC IPD SURGE IN GERMANY WITH STRONGLY INCREASED PCV13 SEROTYPE LEVELS. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek.

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INVESTIGATING THE METEORIC RISE OF SEROTYPE 3 IN INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE IN GERMANY: HOW DID WE GET HERE? Stephanie Perniciaro, Chrispin Chaguza, Mark van der Linden, Andreas Itzek.

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REDUCING THE INFANT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE SCHEDULE RECOMMENDATION FROM 3+1 to 2+1 DOSES IN GERMANY: CHANGES IN ADHERENCE AND VACCINE TYPE INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE. Stephanie Perniciaro, Daniel Weinberger, Mark van der Linden

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DIFFERENCES IN SEROTYPE DISTRIBUTION OF INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE AMONG STRATIFIED ADULT AGE GROUPS AFTER LONG-TERM INFANT PCV13 USE: THE PSERENADE PROJECT. Maria Garcia Quesada, On behalf of the PSERENADE Team.

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DIFFERENCES IN SEROTYPE DISTRIBUTION OF INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE BETWEEN CHILDREN <2 AND 2-4 YEARS AFTER LONG-TERM PCV13 USE: THE PSERENADE PROJECT. Maria Garcia Quesada, On behalf of the PSERENADE Te

33nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 – 18 April 2023

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Full re-emergence of invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in Germany after strong reduction throughout SARS-CoV-2 pandemic lockdown. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek.

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Increase in invasive bacterial infections in Germany in 2022. Regina Singer, Sebastian Haller, Muna Abu Sin, Tim Eckmanns, Ines Noll, Mark van der Linden, Silke Buda, Johanna Schlaberg, Sabine Vygen-Bonnet, Anja von Laer. 

European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE), Barcelona, Spain, 22 – 24 Nov 2023

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Increase in group A streptococcal infections in children in winter 2022/2023 in Germany. Regina Singer, Sebastian Haller, Muna Abu Sin, Ines Noll, Marc Schneider, Mark van der Linden, Silke Buda, Tim Eckmanns, Anja von Laer. 

41st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Lisbon, Portugal, 8 - 12 May 2023
E-Poster
SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC INDUCED CHANGES IN SEROYPE PREVALENCE AMONG CHILDREN WITH INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE (IPD) IN GERMANY. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek.

E-Poster
Streptococcus pyogenes in children with parapneumonic pleural effusions and pleural empyema (PPE/PE) - patient characteristics and subtype distribution (ESPED study, 2010-2020). 
Eva-Lotta Tanzberger, Andrea Streng, Patricia Niekler, Johannes Forster, Christoph Schoen, Mark van der Linden, Johannes Liese.

DGKJ Kongress für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin 2022, Düsseldorf, Germany, 7 – 10 Sep 2022

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Streptococcus pyogenes bei Kindern mit parapneumonischen Pleuraergüssen und Pleuraempyemen (PPE/PE) – Patientencharakteristika und Subtypenverteilung (ESPED Studie, 2010-2020). Tanzberger E, Streng A, Niekler P, Forster J, Schoen C, van der Linden M, Liese JG.

29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Infektiologie e.V., Aachen, Germany, 19 – 21 May 2022

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Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Inzidenz und bakterielle Erregerverteilung von parapneumonischen Pleuraergüssen und Pleuraempyemen (PPE/PE) bei Kindern – Daten aus der deutschlandweiten ESPED Surveillance-Studie, 2010-2021. Andrea Streng, Eva-Lotta Tanzberger, Patricia Niekler, Johannes Forster, Christoph Schoen, Mark van der Linden, Johannes Liese.

32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Lisbon, Portugal, 23 – 26 April 2022

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Immediate re-emergence of invasive pneumococcal disease in Germany after strong reduction throughout SARS-CoV-2 pandemic lockdown. M. van der Linden, M. Imöhl and A. Itzek.

40th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Athens, Greece, 9 - 13 May 2022

E-Poster
FALL AND RISE OF INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE AMONG CHILDREN IN GERMANY. M. van der Linden, A. Itzek, S. Perniciaro and M. Imöhl.

15th European Meeting on the Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus (Europneumo2022). Liverpool, England, 31 May – 3 June 2022.

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Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Germany and Possible Impact of new Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Formulations. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek.

12th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-12), Toronto, Canada, 19-23 June, 2022

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SARS-COV-2 AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SEROTYPE 12F IPD AMONG ADULTS IN GERMANY. M. van der Linden and A. Itzek 

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DEVELOPMENT OF A PIPELINE FOR GENOME SEQUENCING BASED SURVEILLANCE OF PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS. K. Maruhn, A. Itzek, M. Imoehl, M. van der Linden

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invasive Streptococcal Disease IN GERMANY during The SARS-COV-2 pandemic. A. Itzek and M. van der Linden 

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SEROTYPE AND ANTIMICROBIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE ISOLATES CULTURED FROM JAPANESE ADULT PATIENTS WITH COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA (CAP) IN GOTO CITY, JAPAN. Taiga Miyazaki, Mark van der Linden, Katsuji Hirano, Shigeru Kohno, Elisa N. Gonzalez, Pingping Zhang, Raul E. Isturiz, Bradford Gessner, Luis Jodar, and Adriano G. Arguedas

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Using Gubbins for pneumococcal genomic epidemiology: The emergence and evolution of PMEN3 and PMEN9. Josh C. D’Aeth, Mark P.G. van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Herminia de Lancastre, Paul Turner, Jae-Hoon Song, Stephanie W. Lo, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Raquel Sá-Leão, S Kwan Soo Ko, William P. Hanage, Robert F. Breiman, Bernard Beall, Stephen D. Bentley, Nicholas J. Croucher and The GPS Consortium

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD PROCEDURE FOR DEFINING NEW SEROTYPES WITHIN THE SPECIES STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE. M. Corcoran, H.-C. Slotved, A. Brueggemann, C. Sheppard, M. van der Linden, M. Jansen van Rensburg, F. Ahlers, B. Beall, P.N. Pneumo-Network group 

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Pediatric PCV13 Uptake and Burden of PCV13-Serotype Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Germany: a Comparison of Two Surveillance Systems. S. Perniciaro, M. van der Linden, D. Weinberger

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Re-emergence of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Germany during the Second Year of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. S. Perniciaro, M. van der Linden, D. Weinberger

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THE INVASIVE RESPIRATORY INFECTION SURVEILLANCE (IRIS) CONSORTIUM REVEALS CHANGES IN PNEUMOCOCCAL INVASIVE DISEASE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. Angela B Brueggemann, David Shaw, Noel D McCarthy, Keith A Jolley, Martin CJ Maiden, Mark PG van der Linden, and 106 IRIS consortium members.

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Serotype Distribution of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children and Adults After Long-Term PCV10/13 Use: The PSERENADE Project. Maria Garcia Quesada, On behalf of the PSERENADE Team

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Changes in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Incidence Following Introduction of PCV10 and PCV13 in Children and Adults Globally: The PSERENADE Project. Julia C. Bennett, On behalf of the PSERENADE Team

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Changes in Pneumococcal Meningitis Incidence Following Introduction of PCV10 and PCV13 in Children and Adults Globally: The PSERENADE Project. Yangyupei Yang, On behalf of the PSERENADE Team

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Molecular characterization of non-PCV13 pneumococcal serotypes among vaccinated children in Cape Coast, Ghana. Richael O. Mills, Mohammed R. Abdullah, Samuel A. Akwetey, Dorcas C. Sappor, Johan A. Bolivar, Gustavo Gámez, Mark P.G. van der Linden, Sven Hammerschmidt.
Lancefield International Symposium for Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases, Stockholm, Sweden, 7 – 10 June 2022. 

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INVASIVE GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS IN GERMANY. Andreas Itzek, Michelle Bonk and Mark van der Linden

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TYPICAL STREPTOCOCCUS A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GENUS. Andreas Itzek, Jana Vonhoegen and Mark van der Linden

31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Online, 9 – 12 July 2020

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Invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in Germany: impact of infant vaccination and COVID-19 pandemic. M. van der Linden, M. Imöhl and A. Itzek.

39th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Gewneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 24 - 28 May 2021

E-Poster
Invasive pneumococcal disease among children in Germany, effects of conjugate vaccination and COVID pandemic. M. van der Linden, A. Itzek and M. Imöhl

6th Joint Conference of DGHM & VAAM, Leipzig, Germany, 8-11 March 2020 

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Molecular characterization of pneumococcal isolates from children vaccinated with PCV-13 in Cape Coast, Ghana. Richael O. Mills, Mohammed R. Abdullah, Samuel Akwetey, Dorcas Sappor, Johan A. B. Muñoz, Gustavo Gámez, Mark P.G. van der Linden, Sven Hammerschmidt.

38th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Virtual Meeting, 26 – 29 Oct 2020

E-Poster
Capture-Recapture Incidence of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children in Germany, 2018-2019. S. Perniciaro and M. van der Linden 

E-Poster
Invasive pneumococcal disease among children in Germany, ten years after PCV13 introduction. M. van der Linden, A. Itzek, S. Perniciaro and M. Imöhl

37th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 6 - 11 Mai 2019

E-Poster
Effects of 9 years of immunization with higher-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on children in Germany and coverage of future vaccine fromulations. Mark van der Linden, Stephanie Perniciaro and Matthias Imöhl.

14th European meeting on the Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus. Europneumo 2019,Greifswald, Germany, 11 - 14 June 2019.

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Which Serotypes Will Punch Back After Third-Generation Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination in Germany? Stephanie Perniciaro, Matthias Imöhl, Mark van der Linden.

Swiss Society for Microbiology, Annual Congress 2019, Zurich, Switzerland, 3 – 4 Sep 2019

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Discovery of a newly evolved pneumococcal Serotype 6F in Switzerland. Oluwaseun Oyewole, Lukas Troxler, Marianne Küffer, Carlo Casanova, Alban Ramette, Stephen Leib, Mark van der Linden and Markus Hilty.

Posters 2018
 

59. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V. (DGP), Dresden, Germany, 14-17 March 2018

Reduzierte Effekte der pädiatrischen Pneumokokken-Konjugatimpfung auf invasive Pneumokokkenerkrankungen bei Erwachsenen in Deutschland. Stephanie Perniciaro, M. Imöhl and M. van der Linden

28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Madrid, Spain, 21 – 24 April 2018

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Reduced effect of the pediatric pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on invasive pneumococcal disease in adults in Germany. Mark van der Linden, Stephanie Perniciaro, and Matthias Imöhl

36th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Malmö, Sweden, 23 Mai – 2 June 2018

E-Poster
Bacterial etiology in 488 children with parapneumonic pleural effusion /empyema -results from the nationwide surveillance study, Germany, 2010-2017. Streng A, Schoen C, van der Linden M, Goettler D, Rose MA, Liese JG

E-Poster
Effects of 8 years of immunization with higher-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines among children in Germany, Mark van der Linden, Stephanie Perniciaro and Matthias Imöhl

E-Poster
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Refugee Children Residing in Germany: A Possible Niche for Vaccine-Type and Antibiotic-Resistant Isolates. Stephanie Perniciaro, Matthias Imöhl, and Mark van der Linden

11th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-11), Melbourne, Australia, April 15-19, 2018

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INCREASING ROLE OF SEROTYPE 3 IN INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE IN GERMANY, 2000-2016, Stephanie Perniciaro, Matthias Imöhl, and Mark van der Linden

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NOVEL SEROGROUP 24 ISOLATES FROM INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE IN GERMANY. Judith Loogen, Matthias Imöhl, Stephanie Perniciaro and Mark van der Linden

Kongress für Infektionskrankheiten und Tropenmedizin (KIT 2018), Gürzenich Köln, Germany, 20 - 23 June 2018

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Invasive pneumococcal disease in children under 16 years of age: Incomplete rebound in incidence after the maximum effect of PCV13 in 2012-13 in Germany. Mark van der Linden, Rüdiger von Kries, Gerhard Falkenhorst, Anette Siedler, Thorsten Rieck, and Raphael Weinberger

Jahrestagung der Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM 2018), Wolfsburg, Germany, 15-18 April 2018

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Host adaptation of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus. Maria-Christin Jentsch, Albrecht Uhlig, Uwe Müller, Mark van der Linden, Magnus Rasmussen, Christoph Georg Baums, René Bergmann.

25. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Infektiologie (DGPI), gemeinsam mit der Gesellschaft für Neonatologie und Pädiatrische Intensivmedizin (GNPI), Dresden, Germany, 8-10 June 2017

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Auswirkungen der systematischen Pneumokokken-Konjugatimpfung auf die nasopharyngeale bakterielle Besiedlung bei Kindern bis zum sechsten Lebensjahr in Deutschland. Markus A. Rose, Matthias Imöhl, Maren Laurenz, Ralf Sprenger, Mark van der Linden. 
 

13th European meeting on the Molecular Biology of the Pneumococcus. Europneumo 2017,Stockholm, 27.-30 June 2017.

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Dynamics of pneumococcal serotypes and antibiotic resistance in the post childhood vaccination era in Germany. Mark van der Linden, Stephanie Perniciaro and Matthias Imöhl
 

Worldcon 75, Helsinki, Finland, 9-13 Aug 2017

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Spatial Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Germany. Stephanie Perniciaro, Matthias Imöhl, Mark van der Linden
 

World Congress of the World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (WSPID 2017), Shenzen, China, 2-5 Dec 2017

E-Poster
Impact of Pneumococcal Immunization on Antibiotic Resistance - Results of the German Colonization Study. Markus A. Rose, Matthias Imöhl, Maren Laurenz, Ralf Sprenger, Mark van der Linden.
 

35th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Madrid, Spain, 23-27 Mai 2017

E-Poster
Microbiological analysis of middle-ear-fluid (MEF) and nasopharyngeal-carriage (NC) of infants with acute otitis media (AOM) in Germany, 7th study year.
M. Imöhl, M. Laurenz, K. Liebetrau, A. Busse and M. van der Linden (pdf)

E-Poster
Effects of 7 years of immunization with higher-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines children in Germany
M. van der Linden, S. Perniciaro and M. Imöhl (pdf)

E-Poster
Population-adjusted effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV7, PCV10 and PCV13) against invasive pneumococcal disease in children 6 years of age and younger in Germany
Stephanie Perniciaro, Matthias Imöhl and M. van der Linden (pdf)

E-Poster
Features of paediatric parapneumonic pleural effusions and empyema (PPE/PE) due to Streptococcus pneumoniae  versus PPE/PE due to Streptococcus pyogenes - Nationwide German PPE/PE-surveillance, 2010-2016.
Liese JG, Lehmann L, Schoen C, van der Linden M, Segerer F, Rose MA4, Streng A

27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), 22 – 25 April 2017, Vienna, Austria

Poster No: P0063
Persistent burden of invasive pneumococcal disease in adults in Germany.
Mark van der Linden and Matthias Imöhl (pdf)

69. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie e.V. DGHM, 5. – 8. März 2017, Würzburg

Poster No: MDEP 733 
Streptococcus tigurinus is frequent among gtfR-negative S. oralis isolates and in the human oral cavity but highly virulent strains are uncommon.
Georg Conrads, Svenja Barth, Maureen Möckel, Lucas Lenz, Mark van der Linden, Karsten Henne

Poster No: RKP 830
Corynebacterium spp. nasal carriage in elderly people in Germany.
Barbara Teutsch, Anja Berger, Durdica Marosevic, Thiên-Trí Lâm, Steffi Beer, Nikolaus Ackermann, Stefan Hörmansdorfer, Heike Klaus, Mark van der Linden, Ulrich Vogel, Andreas Sing

68. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie e.V. DGHM, 11. – 14. September 2016, Ulm

Poster No: RKP286
Effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV7, PCV10 and PCV13) against invasive pneumococcal disease among children under two years of age in Germany.
M. van der Linden, G. Falkenhorst, S. Perniciaro and M. Imöhl (pdf)

10th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-10), June 26-30, 2016, Glasgow, UK

Poster No: 066
Serotype distribution and burden of pneumococcal disease in children and adults in Germany.
M. van der Linden S. Perniciaro and M. Imöhl (pdf)

Poster No: 637
Dynamics of serotype 3 among invasive pneumococcal disease in adults in Germany.
M. van der Linden, M. Imöhl (pdf)

ePoster
Molecular biological characterization of non-typeable (NT) Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates.
M. van der Linden, J. Hinds, K. Gould, N. Levina, M. Imöhl (pdf)

38. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Pneumologie, 10. – 12. März 2016, Dresden

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Therapie von 645 Kindern mit parapneumonischem Pleuraerguss und Empyem – Ergebnisse aus der ESPED-Studie.
Segerer F, Seeger K, Maier A, Hagemann C, Schoen C, van der Linden M, Streng A1, Rose M, Liese JG