Sam Manna

Editorial: Thematic issue on bacterial–viral co-infections

Sam Manna, Daniel M Weinberger, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2023  |  FEMS Microbes

Impact of COVID-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on Pneumococcal Carriage Prevalence and Density in Vietnam

Monica Larissa Nation, Sam Manna, Hau Phuc Tran, Cattram Duong Nguyen, Le Thi Tuong Vy, Doan Y Uyen, Tran Linh Phuong, Vo Thi Trang Dai, Belinda Daniela Ortika, Ashleigh Christina Wee-Hee, Jemima Beissbarth, Jason Hinds, Kathryn Bright, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Thuong Vu Nguyen, Kim Mulholland, Beth Temple, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2023  |  MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented to contain SARS-CoV-2 have decreased invasive pneumococcal disease. Previous st..

PneumoKITy: A fast, flexible, specific, and sensitive tool for Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype screening and mixed serotype detection from genome sequence data.

Carmen L Sheppard, Sam Manna, Natalie Groves, David J Litt, Zahin Amin-Chowdhury, Marta Bertran, Shamez Ladhani, Catherine Satzke, Norman K Fry

Journal article  |  2022  |  Microb Genom

Determination of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae is essential for monitoring current vaccine programmes. Since October 2017,..

Variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 14 from Papua New Guinea with the Potential to Be Mistyped and Escape Vaccine-Induced Protection

Sam Manna, Leena Spry, Ashleigh Wee-Hee, Belinda D Ortika, Laura K Boelsen, Steven Batinovic, Nadia Mazarakis, Rebecca L Ford, Stephanie W Lo, Stephen D Bentley, Fiona M Russelll, Christopher C Blyth, William S Pomat, Steve Petrovski, Jason Hinds, Paul Licciardi, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2022  |  MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a human pathogen of global importance, classified into serotypes based on the type ..

Insights Into Pneumococcal Pneumonia Using Lung Aspirates and Nasopharyngeal Swabs Collected From Pneumonia Patients in The Gambia

Eileen M Dunne, Yinglei Hua, Rasheed Salaudeen, Ilias Hossain, Malick Ndiaye, Belinda D Ortika, E Kim Mulholland, Jason Hinds, Sam Manna, Grant A Mackenzie, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

BACKGROUND: We investigated the pathogenesis of pneumococcal pneumonia using clinical specimens collected for pneumonia surveillan..

Synergism and Antagonism of Bacterial-Viral Coinfection in the Upper Respiratory Tract

Sam Manna, Julie McAuley, Jonathan Jacobson, Cattram D Nguyen, Md Ashik Ullah, Ismail Sebina, Victoria Williamson, E Kim Mulholland, Odilia Wijburg, Simon Phipps, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2022  |  MSPHERE

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a leading cause of pneumonia in children under 5 years of age. Coinfection by pneum..

Microbiologists making waves around the South Pacific

Sam Manna, Catherine Satzke, Cheryl Power

Journal article  |  2021  |  MICROBIOLOGY AUSTRALIA

Guest Editorial

Ipek Kurtboke, Dena Lyras, Ian Macreadie, Ross Barnard, Mary Barton, Linda Blackall, Prue Bramwell, Rebecca LeBard, Gary Lum, Sam Manna, Wieland Meyer, Chris Owens, Cheryl Power, William Rawlinson, Tom Ross, Paul Selleck, David Smith, Helen Smith

Journal article  |  2019  |  MICROBIOLOGY AUSTRALIA

Discovery of a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 33F capsular polysaccharide locus that lacks wcjE and contains a wcyO pseudogene

Sam Manna, Eileen M Dunne, Belinda D Ortika, Casey L Pell, Mike Kama, Fiona M Russell, Tuya Mungun, E Kim Mulholland, Jason Hinds, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2018  |  PLOS ONE

As part of large on-going vaccine impact studies in Fiji and Mongolia, we identified 25/2750 (0.9%) of nasopharyngeal swabs by mic..

The transcriptomic response of Streptococcus pneumoniae following exposure to cigarette smoke extract

Sam Manna, Alicia Waring, Angelica Papanicolaou, Nathan E Hall, Steven Bozinovski, Eileen M Dunne, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Exposure to cigarette smoke is a risk factor for respiratory diseases. Although most research has focused on its effects on the ho..