From: Heterogeneity of pneumococcal phase variants in invasive human infections
Serotype | No. of STs a | No. of isolates with phenotype | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Opaque (O) | Transparent (T) | Intermediate (I) | Mixture |  |
1 | 4 | 45 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
3 | 5 | 11 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 45 |
4 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 27 |
8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 27 |
14 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 10 | 9 | 62 |
12B | 4 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
19A | 6 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
23F | 3 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 22 |
7F | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
9V | 5 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
Total | - b | 158 | 79 | 49 | 18 | 304 |