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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Research

Risk Factors for Death from Invasive Pneumococcal Disease, Europe, 2010

Adoración Navarro-TornéComments to Author , Joana Gomes Dias, Frantiska Hruba, Pier Luigi Lopalco, Lucia Pastore-Celentano, Andrew J. Amato Gauci, and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Study Group
Author affiliations: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (A. Navarro-Torné); European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden (A. Navarro-Torné, J. Gomes Dias, F. Hruba, P.L. Lopalco, L. Pastore-Celentano, A.J. Amato Gauci)

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Table 5

Stratified analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype distribution in a study of invasive pneumococcal disease, Europe, 2010*

Age group, y Survived, no. (%) Died (%) RR (95% CI) p value
<5
PCV13-specific 325 (98.8) 4 (1.2) 1
PCV7 104 (97.2) 3 (2.8) 2.31 (0.35–15.02) 0.382
Non-PCV 128 (95.5) 6 (4.5) 3.68 (1.27–10.69) 0.017
5–64
PCV13-specific 486 (94.4) 29 (5.6) 1
PCV7 186 (84.9) 33 (15.1) 2.68 (1.37–5.23) 0.004
Non-PCV 451 (92.4) 37 (7.6) 1.35 (0.64–2.82) 0.429
>65
PCV13-specific 338 (87.8) 47 (12.2) 1
PCV7 154 (80.6) 37 (19.4) 1.59 (0.90–2.79) 0.108
Non-PCV 464 (87.2) 68 (12.8) 1.05 (0.64–1.72) 0.856

*PCV, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; PCV7, 7-valent PCV; PCV13, 13-valent PCV; RR, relative risk

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1Members of the Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Study Group who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.

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