Table 2. Nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Haemophilus influenzae in elderly individuals > 60 years of age considering the subset of participants seen in both visit 1 and the follow-up visit (visit 2; n = 584).
Carriage | n = 776 | n = 584a | |||||||
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Visit 1 | Visit 1 | Visit 2 | |||||||
n | % | 95% CI | n | % | 95% CI | n | % | 95% IC | |
S. aureus | 123 | 15.9 | 13.5–18.6 | 91 | 15.6 | 12.9–18.8 | 105 | 18.0 | 15.1–21.3 |
MRSA | 18 | 2.3 | 1.5–3.6 | 12 | 2.1 | 1.2–3.6 | 18 | 3.1 | 2.0–4.8 |
S. pneumoniae | 17 | 2.2 | 1.4–3.5 | 9 | 1.5 | 0.8–2.9 | 15 | 2.6 | 1.6–4.2 |
H. influenzae | 19b | 2.5 | 1.6–3.8 | 14c | 2.4 | 1.4–4.0 | 10d | 1.7 | 0.9–3.1 |
a Subset composed of the same individuals for visit 1 and follow-up visit (visit 2)
b,c,d All non-typeable isolates