Table 1.

Serotype distribution of pneumococcal meningitis isolates in Germany among children <16 years, adults ≥16 years, and the overall population (1992/93-2005/06, n = 1382)

Serotype	Percent of isolates, children	Percent of isolates, adults	P value	Percent of isolates, overall	No of isolates, overall
14	23.7	7.9	<0.0001	17.5	232
19F	9.3	6.0	0.0260	8.2	108
6B	9.1	5.1	0.0050	7.7	102
18C	8.5	2.8	<0.0001	6.3	83
23F	6.8	8.9	0.1562	8.1	107
7F	6.3	4.6	0.1945	5.8	77
6A	4.4	5.5	0.3783	5.1	67
4	3.5	7.1	0.0028	5.3	70
1	2.8	1.7	0.2063	2.4	32
19A	2.4	3.0	0.6153	2.8	37
3	1.9	7.1	<0.0001	4.4	58
10A	1.8	3.6	0.0406	2.7	36
9V	1.7	5.6	0.0001	3.6	47
8	1.3	3.1	0.0221	2.2	29
33F	1.0	1.7	0.3452	1.4	18
11A	0.9	2.1	0.0686	1.5	20
15B	0.9	1.0	1.0000	1.0	13
9N	0.8	2.3	0.0220	1.5	20
22F	0.6	3.5	0.0002	2.0	26
15C	0.6	0.3	0.4771	0.5	7
23A	0.5	1.7	0.0547	1.1	14
6C	0.5	0.5	1.0000	0.5	7
5	0.5	0.2	0.3934	0.4	5
12F	0.4	1.7	0.0220	1.0	13
17F	0.4	1.0	0.1912	0.7	9
23B	0.3	0.5	0.6588	0.4	5
20	0.3	0.3	1.0000	0.3	4
2	0.1	0.3	0.5845	0.2	3
35B	0.1	0.0	1.0000	0.1	1
others	8.5	10.9	0.1402	10.0	132

Corrected for multiple comparisons using the Dunn-Šidák test (β = 0.001708316).

Significant P values are printed in bold.