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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch

Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b Carriage, Central Asia

Stephanie H. Factor*†Comments to Author , Leslye LaClaire*, Melinda Bronsdon*, Fleura Suleymanova‡, Gulbanu Altynbaeva*, Bakhtiyar A. Kadirov§, Uulkan Shamieva¶, Scott F. Dowell*#, Anne Schuchat*, Richard Facklam*, Benjamin Schwartz*, and Terence Chorba*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA; ‡Zhambyl Oblast Children's Infectious Disease Hospital, Taraz City, Kazakhstan; §Uzbekistan Ministry of Health, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; ¶Osh Oblast Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital, Osh, Kyrgyz Republic; #Thai Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand

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Table 1

Streptococcus pneumoniae in convenience sample, Central Asian Republics, January 1997*

Variable % SP colonization (n/N) % SP isolate survival (n/N) % SP PCN nonsusceptible isolates (n/N) Calculated % colonization with PCN-nonsusceptible SP†
Age (mo)
2–5 49 (47/95) 49 (23/47) 17 (4/23) 8
6–11 64 (74/115) 54 (40/74) 38 (15/40) 24
12–23 66 (94/142) 60 (56/94) 27 (15/56) 18
24–35 62 (65/105) 62 (40/65) 23 (9/40) 14
36–47 58 (61/106) 64 (39/61) 18 (7/39) 10
48–59 51 (34/67) 79 (27/34) 19 (5/27) 10
Sex
Male 60 (197/331) 60 (119/197) 27 (32/119) 16
Female 60 (178/299) 60 (106/178) 22 (22/106) 13
Reported use of antimicrobial drugs in past 7 days
Yes 49 (34/70) 29 (10/34) 10 (1/10) 5
No 61 (335/552) 64 (213/335) 24 (52/213) 15
Weeks storage before transport
3 65 (72/110) 25 (18/72) 11 (2/18) 7
2 56 (175/315) 62 (108/175) 24 (27/108) 13
1 62 (128/205) 77 (99/128) 26 (26/99) 16
Total 59 (375/630) 60 (225/375) 24 (55/225) 14

*SP, S. pneumoniae; PCN, penicillin.
†Result obtained by multiplying the percentage of children colonized with SP times the percentage of SP isolates that are nonsusceptible to penicillin (percentages in column 1 multiplied by the percentages in column 3).

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