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List of works by Laura L Hammitt

10-valent pneumococcal non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae protein-D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) induces memory B cell responses in healthy Kenyan toddlers.

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

1835. High Burden of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Disease Among Native Americans on the White Mountain Apache Tribal Lands

2213. Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) in Hospitalized Native American Adults

444. Better Efficiency, Same Accuracy: Point-of-Care PCR for the Detection of Group A streptococcus in Noninvasive Skin Infections

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

453. High Burden of Invasive and Severe Group A Streptococcus Disease Among Native Americans on the White Mountain Apache Tribal Lands

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

555. The Burden of Invasive Staphylococcus Aureus Disease Among Native Americans on the Navajo Nation

A preliminary study of pneumonia etiology among hospitalized children in Kenya

scientific article published in April 2012

Added Value of an Oropharyngeal Swab in Detection of Viruses in Children Hospitalized with Lower Respiratory Tract Infection ⬇️

scientific article published on April 13, 2011

Addressing the Analytic Challenges of Cross-Sectional Pediatric Pneumonia Etiology Data

scientific article

Age, Spatial, and Temporal Variations in Hospital Admissions with Malaria in Kilifi County, Kenya: A 25-Year Longitudinal Observational Study

scientific article (publication date: June 2016)

Assessment of Carriage of Haemophilus influenzae Type a after a Case of Invasive Disease

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Association of C-Reactive Protein With Bacterial and Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Associated Pneumonia Among Children Aged <5 Years in the PERCH Study

scholarly article by Melissa M Higdon et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Association of Laboratory Methods, Colonization Density, and Age With Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Nasopharynx

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Association of Pneumococcal Protein Antigen Serology With Age and Antigenic Profile of Colonizing Isolates

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

Bayesian Estimation of Pneumonia Etiology: Epidemiologic Considerations and Applications to the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Study

scientific article

Challenges in the diagnosis of paediatric pneumonia in intervention field trials: recommendations from a pneumonia field trial working group

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Chest Radiograph Findings in Childhood Pneumonia Cases From the Multisite PERCH Study

scholarly article by Nicholas Fancourt et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Cohort Profile: The Kilifi Vaccine Monitoring Study

scientific article

Colonization Density of the Upper Respiratory Tract as a Predictor of Pneumonia-Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pneumocystis jirovecii

scholarly article by Daniel Park et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Coverage and timeliness of vaccination and the validity of routine estimates: Insights from a vaccine registry in Kenya

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Density of Upper Respiratory Colonization With Streptococcus pneumoniae and Its Role in the Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia Among Children Aged <5 Years in the PERCH Study

scholarly article by Henry C Baggett et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Detection of Pneumococcal DNA in Blood by Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosing Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Young Children From Low- and Middle-Income Countries

scholarly article by Susan C Morpeth et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Digital auscultation in PERCH: Associations with chest radiography and pneumonia mortality in children

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Does respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory illness in early life cause recurrent wheeze of early childhood and asthma? Critical review of the evidence and guidance for future studies from a World Health Organization-sponsored meeting

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Effect of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on the incidence of radiologically-confirmed pneumonia and clinically-defined pneumonia in Kenyan children: an interrupted time-series analysis

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination without a booster dose on invasive H influenzae type b disease, nasopharyngeal carriage, and population immunity in Kilifi, Kenya: a 15-year regional surveillance study

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Effect of ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease and nasopharyngeal carriage in Kenya: a longitudinal surveillance study.

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines in Preventing COVID-19-Associated Outpatient Visits and Hospitalizations Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons, January–November 2021: A Test-Negative Case-Control Analysis Using Surveillance Data

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of Vaccination with 10-Valent Pneumococcal Non-Typeable Haemophilus influenza Protein D Conjugate Vaccine (PHiD-CV) on the Nasopharyngeal Microbiome of Kenyan Toddlers

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of a pneumococcal protein-based vaccine co-administered with 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against acute otitis media in young children: A phase IIb randomized study

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Evaluation of Pneumococcal Load in Blood by Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Young Children in the PERCH Study

scholarly article by Maria Deloria Knoll et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Frequency-dependent selection can forecast evolution in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Genetic polymorphisms of group B streptococcus scpB alter functional activity of a cell-associated peptidase that inactivates C5a.

scientific article

Hepatitis B immunity in children vaccinated with recombinant hepatitis B vaccine beginning at birth: a follow-up study at 15 years

scientific article published on 17 July 2007

High Burden of Staphylococcus aureus Among Native American Individuals on the White Mountain Apache Tribal Lands

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

Identifying transmission routes of Streptococcus pneumoniae and sources of acquisitions in high transmission communities

scientific article

Immunogenicity, impact on carriage and reactogenicity of 10-valent pneumococcal non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine in Kenyan children aged 1-4 years: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Impact of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease and nasopharyngeal carriage in Kenya

scholarly article published 18 July 2018

Impact of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Pneumococcal Carriage Among American Indians

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

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

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Indirect effect of conjugate vaccine on adult carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae: an explanation of trends in invasive pneumococcal disease

scientific article published on 27 April 2006

Influenza surveillance among children with pneumonia admitted to a district hospital in coastal Kenya, 2007-2010

scientific article published in December 2012

Introduction to the Epidemiologic Considerations, Analytic Methods, and Foundational Results From the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health Study

scientific article

Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type a disease: an unmet health need

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Invasive early-onset neonatal group B Streptococcal cases -- Alaska, 2000-2004

journal article published in 2007

Invasive pneumococcal disease caused by nonvaccine serotypes among alaska native children with high levels of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage

scientific article

Is Higher Viral Load in the Upper Respiratory Tract Associated With Severe Pneumonia? Findings From the PERCH Study

scholarly article by Daniel Feikin et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Kinetics of viral shedding and immune responses in adults following administration of cold-adapted influenza vaccine

scientific article published on October 2009

Limited Utility of Polymerase Chain Reaction in Induced Sputum Specimens for Determining the Causes of Childhood Pneumonia in Resource-Poor Settings: Findings From the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) Study

article

Microscopic Analysis and Quality Assessment of Induced Sputum From Children With Pneumonia in the PERCH Study

scholarly article by David Murdoch et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Motavizumab, RSV, and subsequent wheezing – Authors' reply

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Outbreak of invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype a disease

scientific article

Panel 8: Vaccines and immunology

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Partially latent class models for case-control studies of childhood pneumonia aetiology

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Persistence of antibody to hepatitis A virus 10 years after vaccination among children and adults

scientific article

Pertussis-Associated Pneumonia in Infants and Children From Low- and Middle-Income Countries Participating in the PERCH Study

scientific article published on December 2016

Phylogenetic classification of serotype III group B streptococci on the basis of hylB gene analysis and DNA sequences specific to restriction digest pattern type III-3

scientific article published on 23 April 2001

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine induced IgG and nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci: Hyporesponsiveness and immune correlates of protection for carriage

scientific article

Population effect of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae in Kilifi, Kenya: findings from cross-sectional carriage studies

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Prediction of post-vaccine population structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae using accessory gene frequencies

article

Procedures for collection of induced sputum specimens from children

scientific article published in April 2012

Protecting children in low-income and middle-income countries from COVID-19

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Reduction of childhood pneumonia mortality in the Sustainable Development era.

scientific article

Relating Pneumococcal Carriage Among Children to Disease Rates Among Adults Before and After the Introduction of Conjugate Vaccines

scientific article published on 02 May 2016

Repeat revaccination with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine among adults aged 55–74 years living in Alaska: No evidence of hyporesponsiveness☆☆☆

article

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination during Pregnancy and Effects in Infants

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Safety of Induced Sputum Collection in Children Hospitalized With Severe or Very Severe Pneumonia

scientific article published in 2017

Should Controls With Respiratory Symptoms Be Excluded From Case-Control Studies of Pneumonia Etiology? Reflections From the PERCH Study

article

Six Month Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine

Specimen collection for the diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia

scientific article published on April 2012

Standardization of Clinical Assessment and Sample Collection Across All PERCH Study Sites

scientific article published in 2017

Standardization of Laboratory Methods for the PERCH Study

scientific article

Standardized Interpretation of Chest Radiographs in Cases of Pediatric Pneumonia From the PERCH Study

scientific article

Sustained reduction in vaccine-type invasive pneumococcal disease despite waning effects of a catch-up campaign in Kilifi, Kenya: A mathematical model based on pre-vaccination data

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

Sustaining pneumococcal vaccination after transitioning from Gavi support: a modelling and cost-effectiveness study in Kenya

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The Aetiology of pneumonia from analysis of Lung aspirate and Pleural fluid samples: Findings from the PERCH study

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

The Alaska Haemophilus influenzae type b experience: lessons in controlling a vaccine-preventable disease

scientific article

The Diagnostic Utility of Induced Sputum Microscopy and Culture in Childhood Pneumonia

article

The Effect of Antibiotic Exposure and Specimen Volume on the Detection of Bacterial Pathogens in Children With Pneumonia

scholarly article by Amanda J Driscoll et al published 15 June 2017 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

The Enduring Challenge of Determining Pneumonia Etiology in Children: Considerations for Future Research Priorities

scientific article

The Incremental Value of Repeated Induced Sputum and Gastric Aspirate Samples for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Young Children With Acute Community-Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article

The burden of Staphylococcus aureus among Native Americans on the Navajo Nation

article published in 2019

The impact of 10-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on the incidence of radiologically-confirmed pneumonia and clinically-defined pneumonia in Kenyan children

scholarly article published 18 July 2018

The impact of serotype-specific vaccination on phylodynamic parameters of Streptococcus pneumoniae and the pneumococcal pan-genome.

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

The predictive performance of a pneumonia severity score in HIV-negative children presenting to hospital in seven low and middle-income countries

article

Treatment failure among Kenyan children with severe pneumonia--a cohort study.

scientific article published on September 2012

Trends in bednet ownership and usage, and the effect of bednets on malaria hospitalization in the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS): 2008-2015.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Tribal Sovereignty in Research and Community Engagement for a COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial on the Navajo Nation: Beyond a Facebook Town Hall

scientific article

Upper Respiratory Tract Colonization With Streptococcus pneumoniae in Adults

scientific article published on 1 April 2020

Upper airways colonisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae in adults aged 60 years and older: a systematic review of prevalence and individual participant data meta-analysis of risk factors

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Water quality, availability, and acute gastroenteritis on the Navajo Nation - a pilot case-control study

Water quality, availability, and acute gastroenteritis on the Navajo Nation – A pilot case-control study

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