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. 2013 Nov 9;13:532. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-532

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of grouped serotypes

Serotype group
All patients
Fatal outcome
Any risk factor
Pneumonia
Meningitis
<2 years
    (all = 233)   (all = 233)   (all = 229)   (all = 229)   (all = 244)  
 
No
No(%)
P-value
No(%)
P-value
No(%)
P-value
No(%)
P-value
No(%)
P-value
  Invasive
59
8 (14%)
ns
25 (46.3%)
0.002
40 (75.5%)
<0.001
8 (15%)
ns (0.07)
5 (9%)
ns (0.07)
  Pediatric
91
20 (23%)
ns
53 (60.2%)
ns
30 (35.3%)
0.039
29 (34%)
0.03
26 (29%)
<0.001
  PCV10
128
23 (19%)
ns
68 (55.7%)
0.003
65 (54.6%)
0.001
28 (24%)
ns
27 (21%)
ns
  PCV13
157
32 (21%)
ns
87 (58.0%)
0.004
76 (51.7%)
0.004
31 (21%)
ns (0.06)
29 (19%)
ns
All serotypes 244 49 (21%)   151 (64.8%)   102 (44.5%)   58 (25%)   41 (17%)  

Clinical characteristics related to pneumococcal serotypes clustered into “invasive”, “pediatric”, PCV10 and PCV13 serotypes, with each group compared with all other serotypes. P-values calculated with Fisher’s exact test (two-sided).