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Koenraads, Marianne, Swarthout, Todd D, Bar-Zeev, Naor, Brown, Comfort, Msefula, Jacquline, Denis, Brigitte, Dube, Queen, Gordon, Stephen B, Heyderman, Robert S, Gladstone, Melissa J ORCID: 0000-0002-2579-9301 et al (show 1 more authors) and French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 (2022) Changing Incidence of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Infants Less Than 90 Days of Age Before and After Introduction of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Blantyre, Malawi: A 14-Year Hospital Based Surveillance Study. PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL, 41 (9). pp. 764-768.

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Koenraads, Marianne, Swarthout, Todd ORCID: 0000-0001-5285-7039, Bar-Zeev, Naor ORCID: 0000-0003-0570-4624, Brown, Comfort, Msefula, Jacquline ORCID: 0000-0002-3997-6102, Denis, Brigitte, Dube, Queen, Gordon, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0001-6576-1116, Heyderman, Robert ORCID: 0000-0003-4573-449X, Gladstone, Melissa ORCID: 0000-0002-2579-9301 et al (show 1 more authors) and French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 (2021) Changing incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in infants less than 90 days of age before and after introduction of the 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Blantyre, Malawi: a 14-year hospital based surveillance study. [Preprint]

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Singleton, David ORCID: 0000-0002-1980-5410, Ibarz-Pavon, Ana, Swarthout, Todd D, Bonomali, Farouck, Cornick, Jennifer, Kalizang'oma, Akuzike, Ntiza, Noah, Brown, Comfort, Chipatala, Raphael, Nyangulu, Wongani et al (show 7 more authors) , Chirombo, James, Kawalazira, Gift, Chibowa, Henry, Mwansambo, Charles, Maleta, Kenneth Mphatso, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 and Heyderman, Robert S (2023) Cross-sectional health centre and community-based evaluation of the impact of pneumococcal and malaria vaccination on antibiotic prescription and usage, febrile illness and antimicrobial resistance in young children in Malawi: the IVAR study protocol. BMJ Open, 13 (5). e069560-e069560.

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Morton, Ben ORCID: 0000-0002-6164-2854, Barnes, Kayla G, Anscombe, Catherine, Jere, Khuzwayo ORCID: 0000-0003-3376-8529, Matambo, Prisca, Mandolo, Jonathan, Kamng'ona, Raphael, Brown, Comfort, Nyirenda, James, Phiri, Tamara et al (show 15 more authors) , Banda, Ndaziona P, Van der Veer, Charlotte ORCID: 0000-0002-1685-1622, Mndolo, Kwazizira S, Mponda, Kelvin, Rylance, Jamie, Phiri, Chimota, Mallewa, Jane, Nyirenda, Mulinda, Katha, Grace, Kambiya, Paul, Jafali, James, Mwandumba, Henry C, Gordon, Stephen B, Cornick, Jennifer and Jambo, Kondwani C ORCID: 0000-0002-3195-2210 (2021) Distinct clinical and immunological profiles of patients with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in sub-Saharan Africa. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12 (1). 3554-.

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Swarthout, Todd D, Gori, Andrea, Bar-Zeev, Naor, Kamng'ona, Arox W ORCID: 0000-0002-0841-7586, Mwalukomo, Thandie S, Bonomali, Farouck, Nyirenda, Roseline, Brown, Comfort, Msefula, Jacquline, Everett, Dean et al (show 5 more authors) , Mwansambo, Charles, Gould, Katherine, Hinds, Jason, Heyderman, Robert S and French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 (2021) Evaluation of Pneumococcal Serotyping of Nasopharyngeal-Carriage Isolates by Latex Agglutination, Whole-Genome Sequencing (PneumoCaT), and DNA Microarray in a High-Pneumococcal-Carriage-Prevalence Population in Malawi. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 59 (1). e02103-e02120.

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Bar-Zeev, Naor, Swarthout, Todd D, Everett, Dean B, Alaerts, Maaike, Msefula, Jacquline, Brown, Comfort, Bilima, Sithembile, Mallewa, Jane, King, Carina, von Gottberg, Anne et al (show 7 more authors) , Verani, Jennifer R, Whitney, Cynthia G, Mwansambo, Charles, Gordon, Stephen B ORCID: 0000-0001-6576-1116, Cunliffe, Nigel A ORCID: 0000-0002-5449-4988, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 and Heyderman, Robert S (2021) Impact and effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on population incidence of vaccine and non-vaccine serotype invasive pneumococcal disease in Blantyre, Malawi, 2006-18: prospective observational time-series and case-control studies. LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH, 9 (7). E989-E998.

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Kirolos, Amir, Swarthout, Todd D, Mataya, Andrew A, Bonomali, Farouck, Brown, Comfort, Msefula, Jacquline, Bar-Zeev, Naor, Iroh Tam, Pui-Ying, Alaerts, Maaike, Bilima, Sithembile et al (show 2 more authors) , Heyderman, Robert S and French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 (2023) Invasiveness potential of pneumococcal serotypes in children after introduction of PCV13 in Blantyre, Malawi. BMC infectious diseases, 23 (1). p. 56.

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Thindwa, Deus, Mwalukomo, Thandie S, Msefula, Jacquline, Jambo, Kondwani C, Brown, Comfort, Kamng'ona, Arox, Mwansambo, Charles, Ojal, John, Flasche, Stefan, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 et al (show 2 more authors) , Heyderman, Robert S and Swarthout, Todd D (2022) Risk factors for pneumococcal carriage in adults living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in the infant pneumococcal vaccine era in Malawi. AIDS, 36 (14). pp. 2045-2055.

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Mandolo, Jonathan, Msefula, Jacquline, Henrion, Marc YR, Brown, Comfort, Moyo, Brewster, Samon, Aubrey, Moyo-Gwete, Thandeka, Makhado, Zanele, Ayres, Frances, Motlou, Thopisang et al (show 13 more authors) , Mzindle, Nonkululeko, Kalata, Newton, Muula, Adamson S, Kwatra, Gaurav, Nsamala, Natasha, Likaka, Andrew, Mfune, Thom, Moore, Penny L, Mbaya, Bridon, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293, Heyderman, Robert S, Swarthout, Todd and Jambo, Kondwani C ORCID: 0000-0002-3195-2210 (2021) SARS-CoV-2 exposure in Malawian blood donors: an analysis of seroprevalence and variant dynamics between January 2020 and July 2021. BMC MEDICINE, 19 (1). 303-.

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Swarthout, Todd D, Henrion, Marc YR, Thindwa, Deus, Meiring, James E, Mbewe, Maurice, Kalizang'Oma, Akuzike, Brown, Comfort, Msefula, Jacquline, Moyo, Brewster, Mataya, Andrew A et al (show 6 more authors) , Barnaba, Susanne, Pearce, Emma, Gordon, Melita ORCID: 0000-0002-0629-0884, Goldblatt, David, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 and Heyderman, Robert S (2022) Waning of antibody levels induced by a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, using a 3+0 schedule, within the first year of life among children younger than 5 years in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational, population- level, serosurveillance study. LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 22 (12). pp. 1737-1747.

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Obolski, Uri ORCID: 0000-0001-7594-9745, Swarthout, Todd D ORCID: 0000-0001-5285-7039, Kalizang'oma, Akuzike, Mwalukomo, Thandie S, Chan, Jia Mun ORCID: 0000-0003-4223-7527, Weight, Caroline M ORCID: 0000-0001-6235-550X, Brown, Comfort, Cave, Rory, Cornick, Jen, Kamng'ona, Arox Wadson ORCID: 0000-0002-0841-7586 et al (show 8 more authors) , Msefula, Jacquline, Ercoli, Giuseppe ORCID: 0000-0001-7326-1680, Brown, Jeremy S ORCID: 0000-0002-5650-5361, Lourenço, José ORCID: 0000-0002-9318-2581, Maiden, Martin C ORCID: 0000-0001-6321-5138, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293, Gupta, Sunetra ORCID: 0000-0002-9775-4006 and Heyderman, Robert S ORCID: 0000-0003-4573-449X (2023) The metabolic, virulence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of colonising Streptococcus pneumoniae shift after PCV13 introduction in urban Malawi. Nature communications, 14 (1). 7477-.

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Swarthout, Todd D, Ibarz-Pavon, Ana, Kawalazira, Gift, Sinjani, George, Chirombo, James, Gori, Andrea, Chalusa, Peter, Bonomali, Farouck, Nyirenda, Roseline, Bulla, Edwin et al (show 9 more authors) , Brown, Comfort, Msefula, Jacquline, Banda, Marjory, Kachala, Jean, Mwansambo, Charles, Henrion, Marc YR, Gordon, Stephen B, French, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-4814-8293 and Heyderman, Robert S (2021) A pragmatic health centre-based evaluation comparing the effectiveness of a PCV13 schedule change from 3+0 to 2+1 in a high pneumococcal carriage and disease burden setting in Malawi: a study protocol. BMJ OPEN, 11 (6). e050312-.