Table 1. Demographic characteristics, source of isolates and focus of infection of the study population.
pre-PCV13 (2008–2009) | PCV13 (2012–2013) | p* | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Demographics | Age mean (years) | 59.5 | 64.7 | <0.001 | ||
Male (%) | 60.0 | 58.5 | 0.56 | |||
Source of isolates | Episodes(n) | % | Episodes(n) | % | ||
Blood culture | 822 | 86.6 | 520 | 85.4 | 0.43 | |
Cerebrospinal fluid | 47 | 5.0 | 41 | 6.7 | 0.14 | |
Pleural fluid | 54 | 5.7 | 28 | 4.6 | 0.35 | |
Ascitic fluid | 15 | 1.6 | 13 | 2.1 | 0.42 | |
Other | 11 | 1.2 | 7 | 1.1 | 0.99 | |
Focus of infection | Episodes(n) | Incidence** | Episodes(n) | Incidence** | ||
Pneumonia | 700 | 9.03 | 451 | 6.00 | <0.001 | |
Meningitis | 80 | 1.03 | 66 | 0.87 | 0.33 | |
Peritonitis | 33 | 0.43 | 23 | 0.31 | 0.22 | |
Unknown focus | 102 | 1.31 | 48 | 0.64 | <0.001 | |
Other | 34 | 0.44 | 21 | 0.28 | 0.10 |
* p-value comparing pre-PCV13 and PCV13 periods
** Number of episodes per 100.000 population.