Table 3.
Dynamics of colonisation by site and time point.
| Birth n = 750; 253 colonised mothers (% total) | |
| Mother and infant colonised | 146 (19.5% total; 57.7% born to colonised mothers) |
| Infants colonised, mothers not colonised | 40 (5.3) |
| Total colonised infants | 186 (24.8) |
| Mothers colonised, infants not colonised | 107 (14.3) |
| Neither mother nor infant colonised | 457 (60.9) |
| Site of colonisation at birth (% colonised infants) | |
| Nasopharyngeal and rectal | 96 (51.6) |
| Rectal only | 68. (36.6) |
| Nasopharyngeal only | 22 (11.8) |
| Site of colonisation day 6–9; n = 722 (% of the 181 colonised infants) | |
| Infant rectal colonisation only | 95 (52.5) |
| Infant nasopharyngeal colonisation only | 29 (16.0) |
| Infant nasopharyngeal and rectal | 57 (31.5) |
| Site of colonisation day 60–89; n = 684 (% the 94 colonised infants) | |
| Infant rectal colonisation only | 57 (60.6) |
| Infant nasopharyngeal colonisation only | 26 (27.7) |
| Infant nasopharyngeal and rectal | 11 (11.7) |