Table 4. Relation between serum and salivary IgG and IgA antibody levels in the PCV7 vaccinated groups.

	IgG Serum-Saliva		IgA Serum-Saliva
	(n = 15)		(n = 15)
Serotype	r	P	r	p
4	0.63	0.011	0.57	0.032
6B	0.88	<0.001	0.92	<0.001
9V	0.64	0.010	0.71	0.005
14	0.55	0.035	0.66	0.010
18C	0.79	<0.001	0.65	0.012
19F	0.57	0.027	0.77	0.001
23F	0.87	<0.001	0.69	0.007
1	0.32	0.248	0.40	0.160
3	−0.06	0.824	0.26	0.375
5	0.38	0.164	0.20	0.483
7F	0.31	0.254	0.30	0.296

Correlations between salivary and serum antibody levels were assessed by Spearman correlation. All reported p-values are 2-sided, p-values smaller than 0.05 were considered significant and are depicted in bold.