TABLE 3.

Association between Spn carriage and continuous measures of growth at age 6 mo in infants in South India (InPACT study)¹

Spn carriage pattern	Weight (g)		Length (cm)		WAZ		LAZ		WLZ
	β (95% CI)	P	β (95% CI)	P	β (95% CI)	P	β (95% CI)	P	β (95% CI)	P
Never colonized	0		0		0		0		0
Colonized at age 2 mo only	−266 (−527, −5)	0.045	−1.31 (−2.32, −0.31)	0.010	−0.35 (−0.70, −0.00)	0.050	−0.59 (−1.05, −0.13)	0.012	−0.06 (−0.43, 0.54)	0.824
Colonized at age 4 mo only	−71 (−296,153)	0.535	−0.32 (−1.18, 0.54)	0.468	−0.08 (−0.38, 0.22)	0.594	−0.13 (−0.52, 0.27)	0.536	−0.00 (−0.42, 0.42)	0.995
Colonized at ages 2 and 4 mo	−163 (−385, 58)	0.148	−0.51 (−1.36, 0.38)	0.1244	−0.20 (−0.50, 0.10)	0.191	−0.21 (−0.61, 0.18)	0.294	−0.04 (−0.45, 0.38)	0.869

¹Values were adjusted for the effects of gender, birth weight, colostrum feeding, gestational age and maternal education. LAZ, length-for-age Z score; InPACT, Infant Pneumococcal Acquisition/Colonization in Tamil Nadu; WAZ, weight-for-age Z score; WLZ, weight-for-length Z score; , Streptococcus pneumoniae.