Table 2.
Prevalence of PCV7 serotypes and NVTs in 369 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates (except for 23 killed isolates) from 582 children attending kindergarten or elementary school during a 1-year longitudinal nasal carriage study
| Serotypes | % |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Total (n = 369) | Kindergarten (n = 180) | Elementary school (n = 189) | |
| PCV7 | |||
| 4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.6 |
| 6B | 9.2 | 8.3 | 10.1 |
| 9V | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
| 14 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 1.6 |
| 18C | 2.7 | 0.6 | 4.8 |
| 19F | 7.3 | 6.7 | 7.9 |
| 23F | 7.3 | 7.8 | 6.9 |
| Vaccine coverage | 35.0 | 32.8 | 37.0 |
| Non-PCV7 | |||
| 3 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 4.8 |
| 6A | 5.1 | 6.7 | 3.7 |
| 7F | 3.0 | 1.7 | 4.2 |
| 10A | 4.3 | 3.3 | 5.3 |
| 11A | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 15A | 4.9 | 8.9 | 1.1 |
| 19A | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| 23A | 2.2 | 3.9 | 0.5 |
| 34 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 4.8 |
| 35A | 3.5 | 4.4 | 2.6 |
| 35B | 6.0 | 7.8 | 4.2 |
| 37 | 4.9 | 1.1 | 8.5 |
| Othersa | 11.4 | 12.1 | 10.6 |
| Nonvaccine coverage | 57.7 | 58.9 | 56.6 |
| Nontypable | 7.3 | 8.3 | 6.4 |
NVTs = nonvaccine serotype; PCV7 = seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
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Others include serotypes 1, 7C, 8, 9N, 11C, 12F, 13, 15B, 15C, 15F, 16F, 17F, 22F, 23B, 24F, 25A, 29, 33F, 35F, and 38.