Table 1 An example of the Global Pneumococcal Sequencing (GPS) project metadata
Categories | Fields | Example |
|---|---|---|
ID | Public name | GPS_ZA_0001 |
Geographical location | Country | South Africa |
Region | Gauteng | |
City | Johannesburg | |
Facility where collected | Hospital A | |
Submitting institute | NICD | |
Time | Year | 2010 |
Month | Aug | |
Clinical data | Gender | F |
Age (years) | 0 | |
Age (months) | 1 | |
Age (days) | 0 | |
Clinical manifestation | Meningitis | |
Source | Cerebrospinal fluid | |
HIV status | Negative | |
Other underlying conditions | No | |
Microbiological data | Phenotypic serotype method | Quellung |
Phenotypic serotype | 19A | |
Multilocus sequence type | ST81 | |
Antimicrobial susceptibilitya | Method | Broth dilution |
Antimicrobial (e.g. penicillin) | 2 mg/L | |
Selection | Random selection | Y |