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Table 1 Demographic information of participants in study by age and residence

From: Surveillance of pneumococcal serotype 1 carriage during an outbreak of serotype 1 invasive pneumococcal disease in central Australia 2010–2012

 

Number in study

Pneumococcus culture positive (95% CI)

Pneumococcus PCR positive (95% CI)

Pneumococcus serotype 1 culture positive (95% CI)

Pneumococcus serotype 1 PCR positive (95% CI)

Residence

     

Alice Springs

103/130 (79.2%)

10/103 (9.7%) (5, 17)

11/103 (10.7%) (5, 18)

0/103 (0.0%)

0/103 (0.0%)

Remote Communities

27/130 (20.8%)

11/27 (40.7%) (22, 61)

8/27 (29.6%) (14, 50)

3/27 (11.1%) (2, 29)

4/27 (14.8%) (4, 34)

Alice Springs

     

≤10years

21/103 (20.4%)

10/21 (47.6%) (26, 70)

10/21 (47.6%) (26, 70)

0/21 (0.0%)

0/21 (0.0%)

>10years

82/103 (79.6%)

0/82 (0.0%)

1/82 (1.2%) (0.03, 7)

0/82 (0.0%)

0/82 (0.0%)

Remote Communities

     

≤10years

12/27 (44.4%)

9/12 (75.0%) (43, 95)

8/12 (66.7%) (18,62)

3/12 (25.0%) (5, 57)

4/12 (33.3%) (10, 65)

>10years

15/27 (55.6%)

2/15 (13.3%) (2, 40)

0/15 (0.0%) (0, 22)

0/15 (0.0%)

0/15 (0.0%)

  1. Data also include number of participants positive for pneumococcus by both culture and molecular methods.