Table 1.
Distribution by age of paracoccidioidomycosis patients according to reports from various countries where the disease is endemic
| Country of report (reference) | Yr of report | No. of patients by age group (yr) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤10 | 11–20 | 21–30 | 31–40 | 41–50 | 51–60 | ≥61 | Total | ||
| Colombia (99) | 1992 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 43 | 70 | 80 | 198 | |
| Colombia (22) | 1994 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 44 | 82 | 103 | 54 | 297 |
| Brazil (13) | 1999 | 16 | 51 | 61 | 120 | 153 | 113 | 70 | 584 |
| Brazil (11) | 2001 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 61 |
| Brazil (43)a | 2002 | 45 | 249 | 458 | 565 | 690 | 381 | 159 | 2,547 |
| Brazil (43)b | 2002 | 26 | 108 | 214 | 219 | 263 | 178 | 59 | 1,067 |
| Colombia (A. Restrepo et al., unpublished data) | 2010 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 32 | 69 | 50 | 37 | 215 |
| Total | 90 | 421 | 775 | 1,038 | 1,349 | 913 | 383 | 4,969 | |
| % | 1.8 | 8.5 | 15.6 | 20.9 | 27.1 | 18.4 | 7.7 | 100 | |
a
Data from the Medical Mycology Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
b
Data from the Hospital das Clinicas, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.