Table 1.
Contingency table for Group A Streptococcus emm patterns by site of isolation and prioritised ethnic group.
| Isolated from | Isolates N (%) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prioritised ethnicity of children | ||||
| Māori | NZ European/Other | Pacific Peoples | ||
| Throat | ||||
| A–C | 49 (31.2) | 51 (34.2) | 36 (22.1) | 0.381 |
| D | 24 (15.3) | 10 (6.7) | 35 (21.5) | <0.001a |
| E | 52 (33.1) | 59 (39.6) | 43 (26.4) | 0.394 |
| Skin | ||||
| A–C | 6 (3.8) | 2 (1.3) | 8 (4.9) | 0.436 |
| D | 12 (7.6) | 7 (4.7) | 19 (11.7) | 0.537 |
| E | 14 (8.9) | 20 (13.4) | 22 (13.5) | 0.283 |
| Combined throat and skin | ||||
| A–C | 55 (35.0) | 53 (35.6) | 44 (27.0) | 0.305 |
| D | 36 (22.0) | 17 (11.4) | 54 (33.1) | <0.001a |
| E | 66 (42.0) | 79 (53.0) | 65 (39.1) | 0.203 |
| Total isolates | 157 (100) | 149 (100) | 163 (100) | |
a
Indicates a statistically significant values from the Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test.