Table 4.
Clinical presentation |
Annual incidence by age group and clinical presentation (per 1000 population ª) |
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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.