Table 1.

Success of culturing unencapsulated S. pneumoniae.

Based on having >1% abundance of 16S reads showing the bacteria as being present, 44/361 true positive swabs were not successfully cultured.

Abundance	Culture positive	Number
>1%	Cultured	361
>1%	Not cultured	44
<1%	Cultured	56
<1%	Not cultured	54