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This retrospective study aimed to investigate the molecular characteristics of <jats:italic>S. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> isolated from children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) under 5 years in Chengdu, China. Molecular characteristics of <jats:italic>S. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> included serotype and virulence factor performed by using PCR method and sequence types (STs) determined by sequencing seven housekeeping genes. In addition, the potential relationships between molecular characteristics were depicted by minimum spanning tree and correspondence analysis. The prevailing serotypes were 19F (18.52%), 6B (17.59%), 19A (13.89%), 6A (6.48%) and 23F (5.56%) among 108 isolates. The overall coverage rates of 7-valent, 10-valent, 13-valent, 15-valent and 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) were 47.32, 48.1, 75, 75 and 78.7%, respectively. Meanwhile, the coverage rates of PCV13 among the isolates from CAP patients aged &lt;1 year were high up to 84.2%. MLST analysis results showed that there were 56 different STs identified, of which the dominant STs were ST271 (22.22%) and ST320 (12.04%). Five international clones among STs were observed, including Spain<jats:sup>23F<\/jats:sup>\u20101, Spain<jats:sup>6B<\/jats:sup>\u20102, Taiwan<jats:sup>19F<\/jats:sup>\u201014, Netherlands<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\u201031 and Denmark<jats:sup>14<\/jats:sup>\u201032. Additionally, most of the isolates carried <jats:italic>ply<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>psaA<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>nanA<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>pavA<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>piaA<\/jats:italic> and CC271 isolates expressed more of <jats:italic>nanA<\/jats:italic> than non-CC271 isolates. Moreover, there were strong relevant relationships among STs, serotypes and virulence factors. 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