Bacteraemic Pneumococcal Infections in Southern Sweden 1981-96: Trends in Incidence, Mortality, Age-distribution, Serogroups and Penicillin-resistance

In a survey of pneumococcal blood isolates from patients in Southern Sweden, 560 isolates were found between 1981 and 1996. Between these years, the incidence of pneumococcal bacteraemia increased from 5.2 to 15.2/100,000/y. The eight most common serogroups/types (14, 7, 9, 6, 23, 3, 4 and 19) accou...

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Published in:Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases 1998, Vol.30 (3), p.257-262
Main Author: Karl Ekdahl, Andreas Mårtensson, Carl Kamme
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bacteremia - epidemiology
Bacteremia - microbiology
Bacteremia - mortality
Bacterial diseases
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Middle Aged
Penicillin Resistance
Pneumococcal Infections - epidemiology
Pneumococcal Infections - microbiology
Pneumococcal Infections - mortality
Serotyping
Sex Distribution
Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections
Statistics, Nonparametric
Streptococcus pneumoniae - classification
Streptococcus pneumoniae - drug effects
Sweden - epidemiology
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Summary:In a survey of pneumococcal blood isolates from patients in Southern Sweden, 560 isolates were found between 1981 and 1996. Between these years, the incidence of pneumococcal bacteraemia increased from 5.2 to 15.2/100,000/y. The eight most common serogroups/types (14, 7, 9, 6, 23, 3, 4 and 19) accounted for >75% of the isolates, and 96.4% of the isolates were of serogroups/types represented in the present vaccine. A male preponderance (1.17:1) was noted, and the men were younger than the women (mean 57 vs 63 y of age; p
ISSN:0036-5548
1651-1980
DOI:10.1080/00365549850160891