Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of individual serotypes
|
Serotype |
All |
Fatal outcome |
Any risk factor |
Pneumonia |
Meningitis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | No (%) | P-value | No (%) | P-value | No (%) | P-value | No (%) | P-value | |
| |
Children |
(all = 95) |
|
(all = 95) |
|
(all = 93) |
|
(all = 93) |
|
|
1 |
10 |
0 (0%) |
ns |
2 (22%) |
ns |
7 (88%) |
0.007 |
0 (0%) |
ns |
|
5 |
6 |
0 (0%) |
ns |
0 (0%) |
ns (0.059) |
2 (40%) |
ns |
3 (60%) |
ns (0.084) |
|
19 F |
11 |
2 (18%) |
ns |
5 (46%) |
ns |
5 (46%) |
ns |
2 (18%) |
ns |
|
6B |
8 |
2 (25%) |
ns |
4 (50%) |
ns |
2 (25%) |
ns |
3 (38%) |
ns |
|
14 |
14 |
0 (0%) |
ns |
5 (36%) |
ns |
4 (31%) |
ns |
3 (23%) |
ns |
|
All serotypes |
|
12 (13%) |
|
44 (46%) |
|
38 (41%) |
|
22 (24%) |
|
| |
Adults |
(all = 138) |
|
(all = 138) |
|
(all = 136) |
|
(all = 136) |
|
|
1 |
24 |
3 (13.0%) |
ns |
10 (43.5%) |
<0.001 |
20 (87.0%) |
<0.001 |
2 (8.7%) |
0.038 |
|
5 |
16 |
4 (25.0%) |
ns |
11 (68.8%) |
ns |
9 (64.3%) |
ns |
2 (14.3%) |
ns |
|
19 F |
7 |
2 (40.0%) |
ns |
6 (100%) |
ns |
3 (60.0%) |
ns |
2 (40.0%) |
ns |
|
6B |
10 |
3 (30.0%) |
ns |
10 (100.0%) |
ns |
2 (20.0%) |
ns |
6 (60.0%) |
0.022 |
|
14 |
3 |
1 (33.3%) |
ns |
2 (66.7%) |
ns |
3 (100.0%) |
ns |
0 (0%) |
ns |
| All serotypes | 37 (26.8%) | 107 (77.5%) | 64 (47.1%) | 36 (26.5%) | |||||
Clinical characteristics of the five most common pneumococcal serotypes in children and adults. P-values were calculated for each serotype compared with all other serotypes, using Fisher’s exact test (two-sided). ns = not significant.