Table 4.

Age specific incidence of pneumococcal disease by presentation

Clinical presentation	Annual incidence by age group and clinical presentation (per 1000 population ª)
	0-4	5-19	20-39	40-64	≥ 65
Pneumococcal meningitis	0.347	0.057	0.035	0.027	0.046
Pneumococcal bacteraemia	0.463	0.1	0.152	0.593	2.533
Pneumococcal pneumonia	2.396	0.391	0.32	1.124	6.34
All-cause pneumonia	7.658	1.261	0.933	3.525	20.406
All-cause otitis media	0.491	0.337	0.152	0.294	0.165

ª Population data by age-group for each hospital catchment area for 2006-2007 was used as the denominator for calculation.

Source: Department of Statistics, Malaysia.