Risk factors for nasopharyngeal carriage of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: data from a nation-wide surveillance study in Greece

Table 1 Distribution of nasopharyngeal samples and carriage rates of pneumococcal strains per geographic region.

City/Prefecture	Total Number of children sampled	Number of pneumococcal strains isolated	Carriage rate %
Athens. Attika	932	273	29.29%
Halkida. Evia	271	138	50.92%*
Thessaloniki. Central Macedonia	650	122	18.77%*
Ioannina. Epirus	59	26	44.07%*
Alexandroupolis. Thrace	102	34	33.33%
Herakleion. Crete	96	52	54.17%*
Nafplio-Tripoli-Sparti. Peloponnese	426	101	23.71%
Greece in total	*2536*	*746*	*29.42%*

* flags statistically significant differences at p level of = 0.05. as compared to Attika prefecture

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