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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 25.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2019 Sep 28;37(51):7470–7477. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.079

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of children with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and pneumococcal colonization pre- and post-PCV10 introduction in Mozambique.

Characteristics Pre-PCV10
Post-PCV10
IPD
N = 40
n (%)
Pneumococcal colonization
N = 411
n (%)
P value IPD
N = 30
n (%)
Pneumococcal colonization
N = 507
n (%)
P value
Sex, male1 25 (62.5) 211 (51.3) 0.177 18 (62.1) 247 (48.7) 0.230
Age (months)
Median age (interquartile range) 12 (7–27.5) 25.1 (13.1–42.2) <0.001 19.5 (13–30) 24.5 (13–41.2) 0.245
Age group 2 0.001 0.275
0–11 20 (50.0) 93 (23.1) 7 (20.7) 110 (22.0)
12–23 8 (20.0) 103 (25.6) 12 (41.4) 139 (27.7)
24–59 12 (30.0) 207 (51.4) 11 (37.9) 252 (50.3)
Malnutrition 3 <0.001 <0.001
None 23 (59.0) 343 (85.0) 15 (48.4) 453 (89.9)
Moderate 6 (15.4) 44 (10.9) 8 (22.6) 42 (8.3)
Severe 10 (25.6) 18 (4.4) 7 (29.0) 9 (3.0)
HIV status 4 0.903 0.018
Positive 5 (38.5) 165 (40.2) 5 (35.7) 336 (66.3)
Negative 8 (61.5) 246 (59.9) 9 (64.3) 171– (33.7)
PCV10 Doses 5 0.354
0 Doses NA NA 2 (14.3) 19 (8.2)
1–2 Doses NA NA 3 (21.4) 32 (13.7)
3 Doses NA NA 9 (64.3) 182 (78.1)
Clinical manifestation NA
Bacteremic pneumonia 19 (47.5) NA 14 (46.7) NA
Bacteremia without pneumonia 18 (45.0) NA 15 (50) NA
Meningitis 3 (7.5) NA 1 (3.3) NA
Mortality 6 (15.0) NA 1 (3.3) NA

NA: Not applicable

1

Post-PCV10: One child with IPD missing sex information.

2

Pre-PCV10: Eight children with pneumococcal colonization missing age/Post-PCV10: Six children with pneumococcal colonization missing age.

3

Pre-PCV10: One children with IPD and 6 with pneumococcal colonization missing weight for age Z-score (waz) calculation /Post-PCV: Three children with pneumococcal colonization missing weight for age Z-score (waz) calculation.

4

Pre-PCV10: Twenty-seven children with IPD missing HIV status/PostPCV10: Sixteen children with IPD missing HIV status.

5

Post-PCV10: Sixteen children with IPD and 274 children with pneumococcal colonization not age eligible for PCV10.