Association of Upper Respiratory Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Adults
Parker A, Jackson N, Awasthi S, Kim H, Alwan T, Wyllie A, Baldwin A, Brennick N, Moehle E, Giannikopoulos P, Kogut K, Holland N, Mora-Wyrobek A, Eskenazi B, Riley L, Lewnard J. Association of Upper Respiratory Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 76: 1209-1217. PMID: 36401872, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac907.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 infectionSARS-CoV-2Upper airwayAcute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infectionSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectionSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Syndrome coronavirus 2 infectionAcute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SARS-CoV-2 molecular testingCoronavirus 2 infectionStreptococcus pneumoniae colonizationViral respiratory pathogensSyndrome coronavirus 2Conditional logistic regressionWorking-age adultsQuantitative polymerase chain reactionPneumococcal carriersPneumococcal carriagePneumoniae colonizationOutpatient clinicCoronavirus 2Polymerase chain reactionRespiratory pathogensSaliva specimens