Volume 12, Number 6—June 2006
Research
Social Behavior and Meningococcal Carriage in British Teenagers
Jenny MacLennan*, George Kafatos†, Keith Neal‡, Nick Andrews†, J. Claire Cameron§, Richard Roberts¶, Meirion R. Evans#, Kathy Cann**, David N. Baxter††, Martin C.J. Maiden*, James M. Stuart‡‡
, and on behalf of the United Kingdom Meningococcal Carriage Group
, and on behalf of the United Kingdom Meningococcal Carriage GroupTable 1
Sample characteristics by study center, UK Meningococcal Carriage Study, 1999
| Center | Swabs |
No. swabs by student's sex |
No. swabs by school year |
No. schools visited by type |
Plating method | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | No. analyzed | M | F | 12 | 13 | Other | Compre- hensive | Independent/ grammar | Sixth form college | Further education college | ||
| Bangor | 972 | 971 | 439 | 532 | 529 | 344 | 94 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Direct |
| Cardiff | 1,718 | 1,712 | 829 | 883 | 916 | 692 | 102 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Direct |
| Glasgow | 2,896 | 2,896 | 1,317 | 1,499 | 1,823 | 1,073 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Indirect |
| Nottingham | 1,685 | 1,654 | 848 | 806 | 659 | 475 | 489 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | Direct |
| Oxford | 2,398 | 2,391 | 1,175 | 1,216 | 1,239 | 822 | 309 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Direct |
| Plymouth | 1,394 | 1,389 | 688 | 701 | 585 | 437 | 366 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | Indirect |
| Stockport | 3,011 | 2,906 | 1,598 | 1,408 | 1,514 | 1,023 | 320 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Indirect |
| Total | 14,074 | 13,919 | 6,874 | 7,045 | 7,265 | 4,866 | 1,680 | 47 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |
1United Kingdom Meningococcal Carriage Group: S. Ahmed, D.A.A. Ala'aldeen, N. Andrews, R.A. Barnes, D.N. Baxter, J.C. Cameron, K. Cann, A.D. Carr, D. Casey, M. Clacher, S.C. Clarke, D.W. Crook, R. Cunningham, K.T. Dunkin, M.R. Evans, S. Gray, D. Griffiths, S. Harrison, E.B. Kaczmarski, G. Kafatos, J.S. Kroll, Y.K. Lau, G. Lewendon, C. Lewis, J.M. MacLennan, M.C.J. Maiden, P. Marks, R. Mathews, J. Murray, K. Neal, A. Paull, M.E. Ramsay, C. Roberts, J.M. Stuart, D. Turner, R. Urwin, A.M. Walker, S. Welch.
