The Ages When Healthy Children Are First Colonized by Three Common Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria: A Birth Cohort Study
Limited information exists for when potentially pathogenic bacteria first colonize the airways. Weekly nasal swabs from an Australian birth cohort (N = 158) revealed the median (interquartile range) ages when Streptococcus pneumoniae , Moraxella catarrhalis and Haemophilus influenza e were first detected as 3.0 (0.8-7.1), 5.5 (2.8-8.7) and 11.2 (6.4-18.0) months, respectively. RNA viruses were associated with first H. influenzae detections.
Authors
- Sumanta Saha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0996-8846)
- Nicolette Fozzard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-3808)
- Keith Grimwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-9834)
- Robert S. Ware (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6129-6736)
- Stephen B. Lambert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2709-193X)
Institutions
- Griffith University (AU)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Children's Hospital at Westmead (AU)
- National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (AU)
- University of Otago (NZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Published
- 2025-04-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0000000000004798
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71