Table 4. Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance of 14 Streptococcus pneumoniae strains causing invasive disease and isolated from children aged <5 years.
| Serotype | Age, months | Total number of isolates | Number of isolates resistant to: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicillin | Chloramphenicol | Erythromycin | Co-trimoxazole | Cefotaxime | |||
| 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 0 |
| 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 0 |
| 6A | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6B | 8, 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2* | 0 |
| 9V | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10A | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15Aa | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 0 |
| 19Bab | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19Fb | 5, 48 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 21a | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35F | 45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | |
a
Non-vaccine serotype;
b
serotype caused death;
*
intermediate resistance.