Table 1.
List of serotypes detected by MassTag PCRa
| Sample | Serotype/serogroup(s) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lung aspirate | Nasopharyngeal |
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| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Predominant | ||
| L1 | 14 | 14 | 19F | 19F | ||
| L2 | 14 | 14 | 19A | 5 | 6 | 14* |
| L3 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| L4 | 1 | 1 | 9A/9V | 19F | 9A/9V | |
| L5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 23F | 19F | 1* |
| L6 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| L7 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 5* | ||
| L8 | 14 | 14 | 9A/9V | 14* | ||
| L9 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 19F | 19F | |
| L10 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| L11 | 1 | 1 | 15A/15F | 1* | ||
| L12 | 14 | 14 | ||||
| L13 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5* | ||
| L14 | 14 | 14 | 15A/15F | 14* | ||
| L15 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| L16 | 14 | |||||
| L17 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14* | ||
| L18 | 1 | 14 | ||||
| L19 | 14 | 6 | 19F | |||
| L20 | 9A/9V | 9A/9V | 5 | 14 | 9A/9V* | |
| L21 | 14 | 14 | ||||
| L22 | 14 | 14 | ||||
| L23 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| L24 | 5 | 5 | 9A/9V | 5* | ||
| L25 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| L26 | 1 | 17 | ||||
| L27 | ||||||
| L28 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| L29 | NEGATIVE | 14 | ||||
| L30 | NEGATIVE | 9N/9L | ||||
| L31 | NEGATIVE | 6 | 14 | |||
a
Lung aspirates L29 to L31 were S. pneumoniae negative and served as controls. Serotypes in nasopharyngeal aspirates concurrent with lung aspirates are shown in bold.
*
, predominant serotype in NPA also detected in the lung aspirate.