Philana Ling

We hypothesized that the incidence, clinical presentation, isolate serotypes, and isolate antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing pneumonia in children varied before and through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients aged 18 years or younger at 8 children’s hospitals in the United States admitted with culture-positive pneumonia were identified. Serotyping of pneumococcal isolates was performed at a central research laboratory.

1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States 2Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States 3Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States 4Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States 5Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of the...