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Observational Study
. 2021 Jan:102:260-268.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.017. Epub 2020 Oct 13.

Serotype distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae associated with invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in Japan

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Observational Study

Serotype distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae associated with invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in Japan

Katsunori Yanagihara et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Jan.
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Abstract

Objectives: This study evaluated the serotype distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from adults (aged ≥20 years) with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Japan.

Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted in 49 participating Japanese hospitals. S. pneumoniae isolates were serotyped and tested for antimicrobial susceptibility at a central laboratory. Information regarding patient characteristics, underlying disease, IPD clinical syndromes, and treatment was collected through medical chart review.

Results: The final analysis included 177 patients enrolled from 45 hospitals between September 2016 and April 2018 (bacteraemic pneumonia, 110; bacteraemia without identified focus, 29; meningitis, 19). Most patients (70.1%) were aged ≥65 years and most had underlying disease (79.1%). The proportion of isolates from serotypes contained in the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) 23 was 61.0%, while those in the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) 7 and PCV13 were 2.8% and 28.2%, respectively. Non-vaccine serotypes accounted for 37.9% of all isolates and 50.8% of isolates from immunosuppressed patients. Serotype 12F was the most common vaccine serotype, followed by serotype 3.

Conclusions: The continued disease burden of IPD in adults in Japan warrants improved vaccination rates and development of next-generation vaccines that include serotypes not currently covered.

Clinical trial registration: Clinical trial summary registration number 160,822,918,146; JapicCTI-163352.

Keywords: Antimicrobial susceptibility; Invasive pneumococcal disease; Japan; Pneumococcal vaccines; Serotyping; Streptococcus pneumonia.

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