Table 1.
Primers and probes utilized in this study.
Table 2.
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Febrile Children (N = 960).
Table 3.
Prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage by bacterial species and their association with respiratory infections.
Table 4.
Prevalence of concurrent carriage by bacterial species in the nasopharynx of febrile children.
Table 5.
Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for the associations between different bacterial species in the nasopharynx (adjusted for age, sex, site and ARI).
Table 6.
Prevalence of carriage by bacterial density overall and during ARI.
Fig 1.
Nasopharyngeal density during non-ARI, ARI or clinical pneumonia in febrile Tanzanian children.
The species analyzed is shown above each graphic. (A) ARI cases were compared against non-ARI. (B) Non-ARI cases were compared against children with clinical pneumonia (Clin Pneu). Statistical analyses were performed using the Mann-Whitney U test and showed significance for S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and M. catarrhalis in A and B. Dotted lines represent the means.
Fig 2.
Nasopharyngeal density during severe pneumonia and mild URTI in febrile Tanzanian children.
Nasopharyngeal density (cfu/ml) of each species in children with severe pneumonia were compared against children with mild upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). Statistical analyses were performed using the Mann-Whitney U test and showed significance for S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and M. catarrhalis. Dotted lines are the means.