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. 2016 Dec 15;21(50):30423. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.50.30423

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.