Table 1.
Distribution of nasopharyngeal samples and carriage rates of pneumococcal strains per geographic region.
| City/Prefecture | Total Number of children sampled |
Number of pneumococcal strains isolated |
Carriage rate % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athens. Attika |
932 | 273 | 29.29% |
| Halkida. Evia |
271 | 138 | 50.92%* |
| Thessaloniki. Central Macedonia |
650 | 122 | 18.77%* |
| Ioannina. Epirus |
59 | 26 | 44.07%* |
| Alexandroupolis. Thrace |
102 | 34 | 33.33% |
| Herakleion. Crete |
96 | 52 | 54.17%* |
| Nafplio-Tripoli-Sparti. Peloponnese |
426 | 101 | 23.71% |
| Greece in total | 2536 | 746 | 29.42% |
* flags statistically significant differences at p level of = 0.05. as compared to Attika prefecture