Serotype distribution of remaining pneumococcal meningitis in the mature PCV10/13 period : Findings from the PSERENADE Project

Funding Information: The PSERENADE project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the World Health Organization Pneumococcal Vaccines Technical Coordination Project, grant number INV-010429/OPP1189065. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors.Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction has reduced pneumococcal meningitis incidence. The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERENADE) project described the serotype distribution of remaining pneumococcal meningitis in countries using PCV10/13 for least 5-7 years with primary series uptake above 70%. The distribution was estimated using a multinomial Dirichlet regression model, stratified by PCV product and age. In PCV10-using sites (N = 8; cases = 1141), PCV10 types caused 5% of cases <5 years of age and 15% among ≥5 years; the top serotypes were 19A, 6C, and 3, together causing 42% of cases <5 years and 37% ≥5 years. In PCV13-using sites (N = 32; cases = 4503), PCV13 types caused 14% in <5 and 26% in ≥5 years; 4% and 13%, respectively, were serotype 3. Among the top serotypes are five (15BC, 8, 12F, 10A, and 22F) included in higher-valency PCVs under evaluation. Other top serotypes (24F, 23B, and 23A) are not in any known investigational product. In countries with mature vaccination programs, the proportion of pneumococcal meningitis caused by vaccine-in-use serotypes is lower (≤26% across all ages) than pre-PCV (≥70% in children). Higher-valency PCVs under evaluation target over half of remaining pneumococcal meningitis cases, but questions remain regarding generalizability to the African meningitis belt where additional data are needed.publishersversionPeer reviewe

ОСВІТОЛОГІЧНІ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ ЧИННИКІВ ФОРМУВАННЯ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОЇ КОМПОНЕНТИ У ПРОФЕСІЙНІЙ ПІДГОТОВЦІ МАЙБУТНІХ ФАХІВЦІВ

The article presents the factors that influence the formation of the psychological component in the training of future specialists. Characterized essence of the psychological component of professional competence of future specialists. When covering the position of scientists to determine the factors of formation of psychological components of the professional training of future specialists. Identify and analyze the content of the main factors of the formation of the psychological component in the training of future specialists.В статье представлены факторы, которые влияют на формирование психологической компоненты в процессе профессиональной подготовки будущих специалистов. Охарактеризована сущность психологической компоненты профессиональной компетентности будущих специалистов. Освещены позиции ученых по определению факторов формирования психологической компоненты профессиональной подготовки будущих специалистов. Выделены и проанализированы содержание основных факторов формирования психологической компоненты в профессиональной подготовке будущих специалистов.У статті представлені чинники, які впливають на формування психологічної компоненти у процесі професійної підготовки майбутніх фахівців. Охарактеризована сутність психологічної компоненти професійної компетентності майбутніх фахівців. Висвітлені позиції науковців щодо визначення чинників формування психологічної компоненти професійної підготовки майбутніх фахівців. Виокремлено та проаналізовано зміст основних чинників формування психологічної компоненти у професійній підготовці майбутніх фахівців

ЗМІСТ І СТРУКТУРА ПРОФЕСІЙНО-ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ ПЕДАГОГІВ

The article investigates the determination of the content and structure of professional psychological competence of future teachers. Characterized by basic scientific research approaches professional psychological competence of future professionals. A content analysis of the concept of «professional psychological competence of future teachers». The main components of the structure and performance professional psychological competence of future teachers.Статья посвящена исследованию определения содержания и структуры профессионально-психологической компетентности будущих педагогов. Охарактеризованы основные научные подходы исследования профессионально-психологической компетентности будущих специалистов. Проанализировано содержание понятия «профессионально-психологическая компетентность будущих педагогов». Представлены основные компоненты и показатели структуры профессионально-психологической компетентности будущих педагогов.Статтю присвячено дослідженню визначення змісту та структури професійно-психологічної компетентності майбутніх педагогів. Охарактеризовано основні наукові підходи дослідження професійно-психологічної компетентності майбутніх фахівців. Проаналізовано зміст поняття «професійно-психологічна компетентність майбутніх педагогів». Представлено основні компоненти та показники структури професійно-психологічної компетентності майбутніх педагогів

Changes in invasive pneumococcal disease caused by streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 following introduction of pcv10 and pcv13 : Findings from the pserenade project

Funding Information: Funding: The PSERENADE project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the World Health Organization Pneumococcal Vaccines Technical Coordination Project, grant num‐ ber INV‐010429/OPP1189065. Funding Information: Conflicts of Interest: KH conducted the study and analyses while working at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health but is an employee at Pfizer, Inc. as of 26 October 2020. MDK reports grants from Merck, personal fees from Merck, and grants from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. JCB reports funding from Pfizer in the past year, unrelated to the submitted work. JAS reports grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the UK MRC, National Institute of Health Research, outside the submitted work. MCB reports lectures fee from MSD outside from submitted work. AS reports grants and personal fees from Pfizer and personal fees from MSD and Sanofi Pasteur, outside the submitted work. ML has been a member of advisory boards and has received speakers honoraria from Pfizer and Merck. German pneumococcal surveillance has been supported by Pfizer and Merck. SD reports grant from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. KA re‐ ports a grant from Merck, outside the submitted work. AvG as received researching funding from Pfizer (last year 2017, Pfizer Investigator‐Initiated Research [IIR] Program IIR WI 194379); attended advisory board meetings for Pfizer and Merck. CMA reports grants and personal fees from Pfizer, Qiagen and BioMerieux and grants from Genomica SAU, outside the submitted work. AM‐research support to my institution from Pfizer and Merck; honoraria for advisory board membership from GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Pfizer. SNL performs contract research for GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur on behalf of St. George’s University of London, but receives no personal remuneration. IY stated she was a member of mRNA‐1273 study group and has received funding to her institution to conduct clinical research from BioFire, MedImmune, Regeneron, PaxVax, Pfizer, GSK, Merck, Novavax, Sanofi‐Pasteur, and Micron. RD has received grants/research support from Pfizer, Merck Sharp & Dohme and Medimmune; has been a scientific consultant for Pfizer, MeMed, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Biondvax; had served on advisory boards of Pfizer, Merck Sharp & Dohme and Biondvax and has been a speaker for Pfizer. LLH reports research grants to her institution from GSK, Pfizer and Merck. JDK has received an unrestricted grant‐in‐aid from Pfizer Canada that sup‐ ports, in part, the CASPER invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance project. MH received an educational grant from Pfizer AG for partial support of this project. However, Pfizer AG had no role in the data analysis and content of the manuscript. MC has previously received a professional fee from Pfizer (Ireland), an unrestricted research grant from Pfizer Ireland (2007–2016) and an In‐ vestigator Initiated Reward from Pfizer Ireland in 2018 (W1243730). CLB, MD has intellectual prop‐ erty in BioFire Diagnostics and receives royalties through the University of Utah. CLB is an advisor to IDbyDNA. AK reports personal fees from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. MT reports grants from GlaxoSmithKline and grants from Pfizer Inc. to the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare for research projects outside the submitted work, in which she has been a co‐investigator. JCS re‐ ports had received assistance from Pfizer for attending to scientific meetings outside the submitted work. SCGA received travel grant from Pfizer. BL had two research grants from Pfizer on Strepto‐ coccus pneumoniae. EV reports grants from French public health agency, during the conduct of the study; grants from Pfizer, grants from Merck, outside the submitted work. NBZ has received inves‐ tigator‐initiated research grants from GlaxoSmithKline, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Merck and the Se‐ rum Institute of India, all unrelated to this research. CGS reports grant funding from Pfizer, Merck, and AstraZeneca in the past 3 years. NMvS reports grants and fee for service from Pfizer, fee for service from MSD and GSK, outside the submitted work; In addition, NMvS has a patent WO 2013/020090 A3 with royalties paid to University of California San Diego (inventors: Nina van Sorge/Victor Nizet). All other authors did not declare any conflicts of interest. The funders had no Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 (ST1) was an important cause of invasive pneumococ-cal disease (IPD) globally before the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) con-taining ST1 antigen. The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERE‐ NADE) project gathered ST1 IPD surveillance data from sites globally and aimed to estimate PCV10/13 impact on ST1 IPD incidence. We estimated ST1 IPD incidence rate ratios (IRRs) compar-ing the pre‐PCV10/13 period to each post‐PCV10/13 year by site using a Bayesian multi‐level, mixed-effects Poisson regression and all‐site IRRs using a linear mixed‐effects regression (N = 45 sites). Following PCV10/13 introduction, the incidence rate (IR) of ST1 IPD declined among all ages. After six years of PCV10/13 use, the all‐site IRR was 0.05 (95% credibility interval 0.04–0.06) for all ages, 0.05 (0.04–0.05) for <5 years of age, 0.08 (0.06–0.09) for 5–17 years, 0.06 (0.05–0.08) for 18–49 years, 0.06 (0.05–0.07) for 50–64 years, and 0.05 (0.04–0.06) for ≥65 years. PCV10/13 use in infant immunization programs was followed by a 95% reduction in ST1 IPD in all ages after approximately 6 years. Limited data availability from the highest ST1 disease burden countries using a 3+0 schedule constrains generalizability and data from these settings are needed.publishersversionPeer reviewe

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Latvia in PCV10 vaccination era, 2012-2018

Funding Information: This work was supported by the Hepatologu asociacija. Publisher Copyright: © Copyright © 2021 Savrasova, Krumina, Cupeca, Zeltina, Villerusha, Grope, Viksna, Dimina and Balasegaram.In 2010 in Latvia, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) became a cause for concern and vaccination of infants with four doses of 7–valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) commenced. In 2012, 10–valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) (three doses at 2, 4, and 12–15 month of age) vaccination was introduced. We described incidence and serotype distribution of IPD in Latvia and investigated serotypes associated with death from IPD based on surveillance data. Adult vaccination against pneumococcal infection is not included in the national immunization program. Laboratory confirmed IPD cases are passively notified to the Center for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia (CDPC) by laboratories and clinicians. We calculated incidence by age, sex, case fatality, and trend in serotypes by conducting a retrospective population-based cross-sectional study based on national IPD surveillance data. From 2012 to 2018 466 cases of IPD were reported. The highest notified incidence was in 2015 at 4.4/100,000, which fell to 3.9 in 2018. The highest mean annual IPD incidence was in infants (4.8) and in the elderly (6.0). PCV10 vaccine serotypes were the most prevalent in IPD cases up to 2015 with a decreasing trend from 50% (20/40) in 2012 to 19% (14/74) in 2018 (chi2 test for trend of odds = 0.000). PCV23nonPCV13 vaccine serotypes had an increasing trend and rose from 18% (7/40) to 34% (25/74) (chi2 test for trend of odds = 0.000). Non-Vaccine serotypes had an increasing trend and rose from 13% (5/40) to 27% (20/74) (chi2 test for trend of odds = 0.038). Reported total case fatality was 19% (87/466). The highest, at 36% (20/56), was reported in 2013. After adjusting for age, Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 was associated with death from IPD (adjusted OR 2.3 95%CI 1.25–4.12 p 0.007). Surveillance data indicate evidence of serotype replacement with an increasing trend of serotype 19A and PPV23nonPCV13 and Non-Vaccine serotypes. Serotype 3 and age were associated with fatal IPD outcome. Further studies of S. pneumoniae carriage would be useful in providing more evidence to characterize serotypes' circulation.publishersversionPeer reviewe

Сross-sectional anatomic study of direct positional relationships between mandibular canal and roots of posterior teeth using cone beam computed tomography

Objectives: To establish the frequency of the various types of direct contacts of the root apices with the wall of the mandibular canal and to determine gender differences in number of such contacts in a selected Belarusian population using cone beam computed tomography. Methodology: One hundred and two cone beam computed tomography scans were analyzed to classify the types of contact and three-dimensional relationship between the mandibular teeth and the mandibular canal. Results: The direct contact between the teeth and the mandibular canal was observed in 63.7% of patients. Overall 300 roots of 189 teeth were in direct contact with the mandibular canal: 9.3% were second premolars, 14.7% were first molars, 33.8% were second molars and 50.0% were third molars. There were no statistically significant differences in the number of teeth with direct contact with the mandibular canal between males and females. Conclusion: The direct contact of the root apices with the mandibular canal was most often found in the second and third molars. The root apices of the third molars had the greatest variability of location relatively to the mandibular canal

Prevention and control of meningococcal disease: Updates from the Global Meningococcal Initiative in Eastern Europe

Authors would like to thank Dr Olivier Ronveaux (Infectious Hazard Management, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland) for his contributions during this GMI Roundtable Meeting and for providing permission to use his presentation content in this manuscript. The authors were assisted in the preparation of the manuscript by Hannah Birchby, a professional medical writer at CircleScience, an Ashfield Company, part of UDG Healthcare plc. Medical writing support was funded by Sanofi Pasteur.The Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) aims to prevent invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) worldwide through education, research and cooperation. In March 2019, a GMI meeting was held with a multidisciplinary group of experts and representatives from countries within Eastern Europe. Across the countries represented, IMD surveillance is largely in place, with incidence declining in recent decades and now generally at <1 case per 100,000 persons per year. Predominating serogroups are B and C, followed by A, and cases attributable to serogroups W, X and Y are emerging. Available vaccines differ between countries, are generally not included in immunization programs and provided to high-risk groups only. Available vaccines include both conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines; however, current data and GMI recommendations advocate the use of conjugate vaccines, where possible, due to the ability to interrupt the acquisition of carriage. Ongoing carriage studies are expected to inform vaccine effectiveness and immunization schedules. Additionally, IMD prevention and control should be guided by monitoring outbreak progression and the emergence and international spread of strains and antibiotic resistance through use of genomic analyses and implementation of World Health Organization initiatives. Protection of high-risk groups (such as those with complement deficiencies, laboratory workers, migrants and refugees) is recommended.S

Prevention and control of meningococcal disease: Updates from the Global Meningococcal Initiative in Eastern Europe

Authors would like to thank Dr Olivier Ronveaux (Infectious Hazard Management, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland) for his contributions during this GMI Roundtable Meeting and for providing permission to use his presentation content in this manuscript. The authors were assisted in the preparation of the manuscript by Hannah Birchby, a professional medical writer at CircleScience, an Ashfield Company, part of UDG Healthcare plc. Medical writing support was funded by Sanofi Pasteur.The Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) aims to prevent invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) worldwide through education, research and cooperation. In March 2019, a GMI meeting was held with a multidisciplinary group of experts and representatives from countries within Eastern Europe. Across the countries represented, IMD surveillance is largely in place, with incidence declining in recent decades and now generally at <1 case per 100,000 persons per year. Predominating serogroups are B and C, followed by A, and cases attributable to serogroups W, X and Y are emerging. Available vaccines differ between countries, are generally not included in immunization programs and provided to high-risk groups only. Available vaccines include both conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines; however, current data and GMI recommendations advocate the use of conjugate vaccines, where possible, due to the ability to interrupt the acquisition of carriage. Ongoing carriage studies are expected to inform vaccine effectiveness and immunization schedules. Additionally, IMD prevention and control should be guided by monitoring outbreak progression and the emergence and international spread of strains and antibiotic resistance through use of genomic analyses and implementation of World Health Organization initiatives. Protection of high-risk groups (such as those with complement deficiencies, laboratory workers, migrants and refugees) is recommended.S

Changes in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 1 Following Introduction of PCV10 and PCV13: Findings from the PSERENADE Project.

Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 (ST1) was an important cause of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally before the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) containing ST1 antigen. The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERENADE) project gathered ST1 IPD surveillance data from sites globally and aimed to estimate PCV10/13 impact on ST1 IPD incidence. We estimated ST1 IPD incidence rate ratios (IRRs) comparing the pre-PCV10/13 period to each post-PCV10/13 year by site using a Bayesian multi-level, mixed-effects Poisson regression and all-site IRRs using a linear mixed-effects regression (N = 45 sites). Following PCV10/13 introduction, the incidence rate (IR) of ST1 IPD declined among all ages. After six years of PCV10/13 use, the all-site IRR was 0.05 (95% credibility interval 0.04–0.06) for all ages, 0.05 (0.04–0.05) for <5 years of age, 0.08 (0.06–0.09) for 5–17 years, 0.06 (0.05–0.08) for 18–49 years, 0.06 (0.05–0.07) for 50–64 years, and 0.05 (0.04–0.06) for ≥65 years. PCV10/13 use in infant immunization programs was followed by a 95% reduction in ST1 IPD in all ages after approximately 6 years. Limited data availability from the highest ST1 disease burden countries using a 3+0 schedule constrains generalizability and data from these settings are needed