TABLE 2.
Correlation of capsular types of strains with 189 invasive GBS infections
| Patient group and infection | Capsular type (no. of cases)
|
Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | ||
| Children | ||||||||||
| Meningitis | 3 | 5 | 39 | 3 | 50 (76.9)a | |||||
| Sepsis | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 (21.5) | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 (1.5) | ||||||||
| Subtotal | 8 (12.3) | 8 (12.3) | 2 (3.1) | 44 (67.6) | 3 (4.6) | 65 (100) | ||||
| Adults | ||||||||||
| Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 (0.8) | ||||||
| Sepsis | 9 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 93 (75.0) | |
| Other | 2 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 27 (21.8) | ||
| Subtotal | 11 (8.9) | 39 (31.5) | 15 (12.1) | 15 (12.1) | 23 (18.5) | 9 (7.3) | 1 (0.8) | 11 (8.9) | 124 (100) | |
a
Values in parentheses are percentages.