NEWS2 Is Superior to qSOFA in Detecting Sepsis with Organ Dysfunction in the Emergency Department

Lisa Mellhammar, Adam Linder, Jonas Tverring, +5

Journal of Clinical Medicine

A novel mechanism for NETosis provides antimicrobial defense at the oral mucosa

Tirthankar Mohanty, Jonathan Sjögren, Fredrik Kahn, +7

Blood

Innate Immune SystemImmunologyPathologyOral MicrobiologyMorning Saliva +17

Heparin-Binding Protein as a Prognostic Biomarker of Sepsis and Disease Severity at the Emergency Department

Fredrik Kahn, Jonas Tverring, Lisa Mellhammar, +13

Shock

Time to blood culture positivity in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia to determine risk of infective endocarditis

Fredrik Kahn, Fredrik Resman, Sissela Bergmark, +4

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Qdenga® - A promising dengue fever vaccine; can it be recommended to non-immune travelers?

Martin Angelin, Jan Sjölin, Fredrik Kahn, +6

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against severe disease from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants – surveillance results from southern Sweden, December 2021 to March 2022

Jonas Björk, Carl Bonander, Mahnaz Moghaddassi, +4

Eurosurveillance

Omicron Ba.1Covid-19 EpidemiologyVaccine HesitancySouthern SwedenCovid-19 +18

Secreted Group IIA Phospholipase A2 Protects Humans Against the Group B Streptococcus: Experimental and Clinical Evidence

Elin Movert, Yongzheng Wu, Gérard Lambeau, +3

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Humoral ResponseImmunologySpla2-iia Protects HumansInnate Immune SystemInnate Immunity +19

High level of protection against COVID-19 after two doses of BNT162b2 vaccine in the working age population – first results from a cohort study in Southern Sweden

Jonas Björk, Malin Inghammar, Mahnaz Moghaddassi, +3

Infectious Diseases

Antibodies against a Surface Protein of Streptococcus pyogenes Promote a Pathological Inflammatory Response

Fredrik Kahn, Matthias Mörgelin, Oonagh Shannon, +4

PLoS Pathogens

Virulence MechanismImmunologyM1 ProteinHost ResponseSepsis +16

Platelets promote bacterial dissemination in a mouse model of streptococcal sepsis

Fredrik Kahn, Sinéad Hurley, Oonagh Shannon

Microbes and Infection

Medical MicrobiologyMicrobial DiseasePathogen TransmissionStreptococcal SepsisPathogenesis +7