Pneumococcal colonisation is an asymptomatic event in healthy adults using an experimental human colonisation model

Ashleigh Trimble; Victoria Connor; Ryan E. Robinson; Daniella McLenaghan; Carole A. Hancock; Duolao Wang; Stephen B. Gordon; Daniela M. Ferreira; Angela D. Wright; Andrea M. Collins

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229558

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Pneumococcal colonisation is an asymptomatic event in healthy adults using an experimental human colonisation model

Ashleigh Trimble ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ AT and VC are joint first authors on this work. ADW and AMC are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Victoria Connor ,

Roles Writing – review & editing

¶‡ AT and VC are joint first authors on this work. ADW and AMC are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Respiratory Research Group at the Royal, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Ryan E. Robinson,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Respiratory Research Group at the Royal, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0871-4780

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Daniella McLenaghan,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Respiratory Research Group at the Royal, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Carole A. Hancock,

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Respiratory Research Group at the Royal, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Duolao Wang,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Stephen B. Gordon,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Comprehensive Local Research Network, Northwest Coast, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Daniela M. Ferreira,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Angela D. Wright ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ AT and VC are joint first authors on this work. ADW and AMC are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Comprehensive Local Research Network, Northwest Coast, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Andrea M. Collins

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: andrea.collins@lstmed.ac.uk

¶‡ AT and VC are joint first authors on this work. ADW and AMC are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, Respiratory Research Group at the Royal, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-1572

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Pneumococcal colonisation is an asymptomatic event in healthy adults using an experimental human colonisation model

Ashleigh Trimble,
Victoria Connor,
Ryan E. Robinson,
Daniella McLenaghan,
Carole A. Hancock,
Duolao Wang,
Stephen B. Gordon,
Daniela M. Ferreira,
Angela D. Wright,
Andrea M. Collins

Published: March 10, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229558

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