Table 1. RCAP incidence, southern Israel, 2004–2012*.
| Ethnicity; age, mo. | RCAP, no. cases (incidence†) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 | 2011–12 | |
| Jewish | |||||||||
| <6 | 285 (9.1) | 23 (6.2) | 32 (8.7) | 41 (10.8) | 48 (12.4) | 38 (9.6) | 51 (12.8) | 35 (8.6) | 17 (4.1) |
| 6–17 | 958 (15.6) | 128 (16.9) | 123 (16.6) | 112 (15.2) | 157 (20.7) | 117 (15.1) | 120 (15.2) | 120 (15.0) | 81 (10.1) |
| 17–35 | 1,003 (11.0) | 106 (9.6) | 140 (12.3) | 130 (11.7) | 181 (16.3) | 119 (10.5) | 127 (10.9) | 106 (9.0) | 94 (7.9) |
| Bedouin | |||||||||
| <6 | 1,147 (39.9) | 147 (41.9) | 116 (33.9) | 177 (51.1) | 135 (37.9) | 162 (44.5) | 146 (39.6) | 175 (47.0) | 89 (23.7) |
| 6–17 | 1,486 (26.0) | 186 (25.7) | 181 (25.8) | 223 (32.6) | 186 (26.9) | 224 (31.4) | 218 (29.9) | 168 (22.8) | 100 (13.5) |
| 17–35 | 1,057 (12.4) | 123 (11.5) | 149 (13.7) | 140 (13.3) | 145 (14.1) | 145 (14.0) | 147 (13.8) | 119 (10.9) | 89 (8.1) |
*RCAP, radiologically confirmed alveolar pneumonia. †Number of cases/1,000 children/year.