Fig 1.

Microbiological characteristics of 28 children with acute otitis media with spontaneous otorrhea that was culture positive for pneumococcus. Subject numbers of children on antibiotics are left justified. Culture results are shown on the left and microarray serotyping results on the right. The percentage of capsular locus DNA in the ear is shown to the right of the first of each pair of aural strains in subjects where two were detected. PCV13 serotypes are indicated with an asterisk and PCV7/13 serotypes with two. Black box, ear and nose; patterned box, ear; gray box, nose.