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Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2011 Jun 24;29(35):6049–6058. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.06.025

Table 1.

Capsular phenotype or genotype of 408 carriage isolates.

Isolate collection	Encapsulated^a (n = 143)				Unencapsulated (n = 265)
	SgB	SgC	SgY	SgZ	NG^a	B^b	C^b	Y^b
GA 1998	37	2	75	3	77	NA	NA	NA
GA 2007	13	0	4	0	59	17	2	8
MD 2007	0	0	9	0	64	20	3	15
Total	50	2	88	3	200	37	5	23

^a

Slide agglutination serogroup.

^b

Serogroup specific PCR; NG, non-groupable; NA, not available.