Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid related to vaccine serotypes and to clinical characteristics

• Pneumococci isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid from 1998 to 2001 in 2 counties in south-west Sweden were serotyped with the capsular reaction test. Of the 836 strains, 353 (42%), 598 (72%) and 789 (94%) belonged to serotypes included in the 7- and 11-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and in the 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine, respectively. The most common serotype was type 1 (119 isolates) followed in descending frequency by serotypes 7F, 9V, 14, 4 and 12F (90-49 isolates per serotype). The coverage rates of the 7- and 11-valent conjugate vaccines among 58 strains isolated from children and adolescents 0-19 y of age were 46% and 93%, respectively. A comparison of clinical characteristics of infections caused by different serotypes showed that types 1 and 7F were less commonly associated with severe underlying diseases, that patients infected with these serotypes were younger than the average and, thus, had a lower case-fatality rate.

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Adolescent

Adult

Aged

Aged

80 and over

Child

Child

Preschool

Female

Humans

Infant

Infant

Newborn

Male

Middle Aged

Mortality/trends

Pneumococcal Infections/blood/cerebrospinal fluid/*microbiology

Serotyping

Streptococcal Vaccines/*immunology

*Streptococcus pneumoniae/classification/immunology

Vaccines

Conjugate/immunology

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