Comparison of NPS culture and serotyping results by processing method.

<p>1,107 nasopharyngeal swabs evaluated by both methods.</p

The data collected from different stakeholders.

<p>The data collected from different stakeholders.</p

Opinions of the YPAG member and their parents.

<p>Opinions of the YPAG member and their parents.</p

Infant carriage pneumococcal serotype distribution, by latex sweep serotyping.

<p>Results of culture of 8,736 swabs from 364 infants. The bars indicate the number of isolates of each serotype and the dashed lines indicate the cumulative frequency (cumulative frequency of 67% is indicated by the vertical arrows). Dark grey bars highlight PCV13 serotypes.</p

Relationship between colonisation density and agreement between WHO culture and latex sweep result.

<p>Relationship between colonisation density and agreement between WHO culture and latex sweep result.</p

Study flow diagram.

<p>* Described in detail in reference <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0067933#pone.0067933-Turner3" target="_blank">[8]</a>.</p

Community members’ feedback after each Science Café event.

<p>Community members’ feedback after each Science Café event.</p

Duration of first pneumococcal carriage episode, stratified by NPS culture/serotyping method.

<p>100 infants were included in each group.</p

Individual pneumococcal serotype acquisition rates, by NPS culture/serotyping method.

<p>100 infants were included in each group; each serotype considered independently.</p>a<p>Acquisition rate per day.</p>b<p>Non-typeable pneumococcal colonisation excluded.</p

Parsimony SNP trees for bacterial isolates

This file contains parsimonious SNP trees for Streptococcus Pneumoniae isolates. Trees are constructed for serotypes NT, 23F, 23AF, 19F, 15BC, 14 and 6B, that were the most common serotypes in the original cohort study. This study assessed pneumococcal colonization in infants and their mothers, who lived in a refugee camp in Northwestern Thailand. The trees contain the following information for each isolate: MLST genotypes, household labels, mother/infant designation and sampling dates