We measured severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA
concentrations in primary sewage sludge in the New Haven, Connecticut, USA, metropolitan area …

Vaccination with heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has significantly
reduced the burden of pneumococcal disease and has had an important public health benefit. …

Importance Efforts to track the severity and public health impact of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) in the United States have been hampered by state-level differences in …

Methods| Death data for 2014-2020 and population counts for the 50 states and the District
of Columbia were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics3, 4 and US Census …

Background . The 92 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae differ greatly in
nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence, invasiveness, and disease incidence. There has been …

Methods| Weekly death data for the 50 US states and the District of Columbia were obtained
from the National Center for Health Statistics for January through April 2020 and the …

There are 91 known capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The nasopharyngeal
carriage prevalence of particular serotypes is relatively stable worldwide, but the host and …

The effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19 on the individual level is well established.
However, few studies have examined vaccine effectiveness against transmission. We used a …

Antibodies to Zika virus (ZIKV) can be protective. To examine the antibody response in
individuals who develop high titers of anti-ZIKV antibodies, we screened cohorts in Brazil and …

Importance With the evidence of waning immunity of the mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech),
a nationwide third-dose (booster) vaccination campaign was initiated in Israel …