Table. Characteristics of 281 bacterial isolates and 242 case-patients from 254 episodes of invasive bacterial infection, Greenland, 1995–2004.
| Bacterial class | No. isolates | Median age, y (range) | Overall incidence* | Incidence* by sex |
Incidence* by ethnicity (place of birth) |
Incidence* by region (place of living) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (n = 129) | F (n = 125) | Greenland (n = 235) | Denmark/other (n = 18) | Nuuk (n = 134) | Districts (n = 120) | ||||||
| Streptococcus spp. | |||||||||||
| S. pneumoniae† | 92 | 46 (0–76) | 16.4 | 15.7 | 17.2 | 17.6 | 8.0 | 39.9 | 8.7 | ||
| Group A streptococci | 5 | 58 (37–76) | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.9 | ||
| Group B streptococci | 5 | 43 (12–70) | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 2.9 | 0.2 | ||
| Other‡ |
10 |
38
(6–67) |
1.8 |
2.7 |
0.8 |
|
1.8 |
1.6 |
|
5.1 |
0.7 |
| Staphylococcus spp. | |||||||||||
| S. aureus§ | 35 | 50 (0–90) | 6.2 | 4.7 | 8.0 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 13.8 | 3.8 | ||
| Other¶ |
22 |
41
(0–70) |
3.9 |
4.7 |
3.1 |
|
4.1 |
3.2 |
|
7.3 |
2.8 |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 8 | 45 (0–72) | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 0.9 | ||
| Neisseria meningitidis# | 15 | 5 (0–54) | 2.7 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 0 | 5.8 | 1.6 | ||
|
Moraxella catarrhalis
|
2 |
18
(0–36) |
0.4 |
0 |
0.8 |
|
0.4 |
0 |
|
0.7 |
0.2 |
| Haemophilus influenzae | |||||||||||
| Type b | 4 | 0 (0–0) | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||
| Non-b |
10 |
22
(0–71) |
1.8 |
1.3 |
2.3 |
|
2.0 |
0 |
|
2.9 |
1.4 |
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
2 |
45
(36–55) |
0.4 |
0.7 |
0 |
|
0.4 |
0 |
|
1.5 |
0 |
| Enterobacteriaceae spp. | |||||||||||
| Escherichia coli | 44 | 58 (0–84) | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 14.5 | 5.7 | ||
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 6 | 67 (22–74) | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 0.5 | ||
| Salmonella spp. | 5 | 42 (12–51) | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 0.5 | ||
|
Enterobacter
cloacae |
1 |
72 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
0 |
|
0.2 |
0 |
|
0 |
0.2 |
| Other | |||||||||||
| Gram-positive cocci** | 5 | 46 (4–65) | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1.5 | 0.7 | ||
| Gram-positive rods†† | 7 | 58 (13–72) | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0 | 2.2 | 0.9 | ||
| Gram-negative
rods‡‡ |
3 |
54
(13–72) |
0.5 |
0 |
1.1 |
|
0.6 |
0 |
|
0.7 |
0.5 |
| Total | 281 | 47 (0–90) | 50.0 | 49.0 | 51.1 | 52.9 | 32.1 | 108.1 | 31.1 | ||
*Per 100,000 population. †Most numerous serotypes were 12F (9) and 22F (5); 41 isolates not were serotyped. Serotype distribution for 1996–2002 described in detail in (1). ‡Other hemolytic and nonhemolytic streptococci. §None of the S. aureus isolates were methicillin-resistant strains. ¶S. epidermidis (6) and other non–S. aureus staphylococci. #Two isolates in group B, 4 in group C, and 9 not grouped. **S. mitis (1) and unspecified cocci. ††Bacillus sp. (1), corynebacterium (1), Clostridium perfringens (2), Listeria monocytogenes (1), and Propionebacterium sp. (1). ‡‡Bacteroides sp. (1) and unspecified rods.