Table 5. Predominant serotypes among respiratory, ear and eye isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae received by the Public Health England Colindale reference service, 2005–2014 (n=1,536).

	Number of isolates of indicated serotype in year:										Grand total	No with triple resistance	% with triple resistance
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Serotype 19F	15	31	41	50	55	35	23	14	12	14	290	232	80.0
Serotype 19A	2	10	15	27	45	44	28	17	8	17	213	169	79.3
Serotype 15A	0	4	3	8	23	22	17	26	31	31	165	137	83.0
Serotype 6B	5	18	39	35	25	13	4	7	3	2	151	104	68.9
Non-typeable rough	3	8	16	23	33	18	10	15	5	2	133	81	60.9
Serotype 9V	7	36	25	15	18	10	0	0	1	2	114	16	14.0
Serotype 14	9	18	21	6	11	11	4	2	3	1	86	30	34.9
Serotype 23F	7	9	6	16	16	9	3	2	1	3	72	35	48.6
Serotype 35B	1	3	4	9	7	6	9	4	7	4	54	9	16.7
No serotype data	1	2	0	0	0	6	1	1	5	26	42	22	52.4
Serotype 6A	0	3	5	5	3	6	1	2	0	1	26	7	26.9
Serotype 11A	0	0	1	1	4	3	3	5	2	4	23	12	52.2
Serotype 3	0	1	3	0	3	4	1	2	4	3	21	3	14.3
Serotype 1	0	0	1	2	3	5	1	1	1	0	14	1	7.1
Serotype 13	0	2	0	1	6	1	0	0	1	0	11	0	0.0
All other typesa	8	5	5	9	16	17	15	10	13	23	121	38	31.4
Total	58	150	185	207	268	210	120	108	97	133	1,536	896	58.3
15A as % typed reference submissionsb	0.0	2.7	1.6	3.9	8.6	10.8	14.3	24.3	33.7	29.0	11.0

95% of isolates were from England, Wales and Northern Ireland with the remainder from Scotland, Crown Dependencies, Republic of Ireland or elsewhere.

^a Not accounting for > 10 isolates in total over the surveillance period.

^b Excludes ‘no data row’ above from denominator.