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List of works by Pierre R. Smeesters

A Controlled Human Infection Model of Group A Pharyngitis: Which Strain and Why?

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

A systematic and functional classification of Streptococcus pyogenes that serves as a new tool for molecular typing and vaccine development

scientific article published on 5 May 2014

ASO titer or not? When to use streptococcal serology: a guide for clinicians.

scientific article published on 06 January 2015

Added value of the emm-cluster typing system to analyze group A Streptococcus epidemiology in high-income settings.

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Atlas of group A streptococcal vaccine candidates compiled using large-scale comparative genomics

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Author Correction: Atlas of group A streptococcal vaccine candidates compiled using large-scale comparative genomics

scientific article published on 1 August 2019

Carriage-associated Streptocccus pneumoniae serotype 1 in Brussels, Belgium

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Characterization of a novel temperate phage originating from a cereulide-producing Bacillus cereus strain

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Characterization of novel phages isolated in coagulase-negative staphylococci reveals evolutionary relationships with Staphylococcus aureus phages.

scientific article published on 24 August 2012

Comparative M-protein analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes from pharyngitis and skin infections in New Zealand: Implications for vaccine development

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Correlates of Protection for M Protein-Based Vaccines against Group A Streptococcus

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Detection of group a streptococcal pharyngitis by quantitative PCR.

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Development of an opsonophagocytic killing assay for group a streptococcus

scientific article published on 1 June 2018

Differences between Belgian and Brazilian group A Streptococcus epidemiologic landscape

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Differences in nasopharyngeal bacterial carriage in preschool children from different socio-economic origins

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

Don't steal the body

scientific article published in November 2013

Evaluation of a WHO-validated serotype-specific serological assay for the diagnosis of pneumococcal etiology in children with community-acquired pneumonia.

scientific article published on July 2013

Genetic diversity of Group A Streptococcus M protein: implications for typing and vaccine development

scientific article published on 25 September 2008

Group A Streptococcus infections in children: from virulence to clinical management

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Group A Streptococcus virulence and host factors in two toddlers with rheumatic fever following toxic shock syndrome

scientific article published on 13 October 2009

Group A Streptococcus, Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Epidemiology and Clinical Considerations.

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Group A streptococcal meningitis: emm type distribution and theoretical vaccine coverage in children.

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Group A streptococcal strains isolated in Lao People's Democratic Republic from 2004 to 2013.

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Group A streptococcus colonies from a single throat swab can have heterogeneous antimicrobial susceptibility patterns

scientific article published in March 2013

Group A streptococcus meningitis in children.

scientific article published on February 2013

Group a streptococcus antibiotic resistance in southern Brazil: a 17-year surveillance study

scientific article published on 19 March 2011

Immune Cross-Opsonization Within emm Clusters Following Group A Streptococcus Skin Infection: Broadening the Scope of Type-Specific Immunity.

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Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infection among Children, Rural Kenya

scientific article published on February 2016

Investigation of group A Streptococcus immune responses in an endemic setting, with a particular focus on J8

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M-Protein Analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes Isolates Associated with Acute Rheumatic Fever in New Zealand

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Management of Contacts of Patients With Severe Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection

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Nosocomial transmission of necrotising fasciitis

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Pharyngitis in low-resources settings: a pragmatic clinical approach to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Pneumococcal aetiology and serotype distribution in paediatric community-acquired pneumonia

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Polyclonal dissemination of tetracycline resistance among Streptococcus pyogenes paediatric isolates from Brazil

scientific article published on November 24, 2010

Post-infectious group A streptococcal autoimmune syndromes and the heart

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Pragmatic scoring system for pharyngitis in low-resource settings

scientific article published on 09 August 2010

Predicted Coverage and Immuno-Safety of a Recombinant C-Repeat Region Based Streptococcus pyogenes Vaccine Candidate

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Profuse watery diarrhoea: An unusual presenting feature of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome

scientific article published on 01 March 2016

QUESTION 1: Are household contacts of patients with invasive group A streptococcal disease at higher risk of secondary infection?

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Recombination Drives Genetic Diversification of Streptococcus dysgalactiae Subspecies equisimilis in a Region of Streptococcal Endemicity

scientific article published on August 3, 2011

Science that "knows" and science that "asks"

scientific article published on August 2, 2011

Seasonal, Geographic, and Temporal Trends of emm Clusters Associated With Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections in US Multistate Surveillance

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Sequential multiplex PCR assay for determining capsular serotypes of colonizing S. pneumoniae.

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Severe group A streptococcal infections in a paediatric intensive care unit

scientific article published on 09 June 2014

Status of research and development of vaccines for Streptococcus pyogenes

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Streptococcal Serology: Secrets for the Specialist

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Streptococcal skin infection and rheumatic heart disease

scientific article published on April 2012

Streptococcal superantigens: categorization and clinical associations

scientific article published on 6 November 2013

Streptococcus pyogenes strains in Sao Paulo, Brazil: molecular characterization as a basis for StreptInCor coverage capacity analysis

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Structure-based design of broadly protective group a streptococcal M protein-based vaccines

scientific article published on 24 November 2016

The Limitations of the Rheumatogenic Concept for Group A Streptococcus: Systematic Review and Genetic Analysis

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

The emm-type diversity does not always reflect the M protein genetic diversity--is there a case for designer vaccine against GAS

scientific article published on 04 December 2009

Toxic shock syndrome - the seven Rs of management and treatment

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Validation of an automated colony counting system for group A Streptococcus

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Working towards a group A streptococcal vaccine: report of a collaborative Trans-Tasman workshop

scientific article published on 14 May 2014

You'll be a clinician-scientist, my son.

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

[The pain of the newborn: between reality and perception]

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

group A streptococcal M-Like Proteins: From pathogenesis to Vaccine POTENTIAL.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017