Table 1.
Pneumococcal Meningitis Cases: Burkina Faso, 2011–2017
| 2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
Pre- PCV13 2011–2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
Post- PCV13 2014–2017 |
Total |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pneumococcal meningitis cases | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) |
| Laboratory-confirmed pneumococcal meningitis casesa | 642 | 462 | 424 | 1528 | 502 | 551 | 520 | 397 | 1970 | 3498 |
| Patient age groupb | ||||||||||
| <1 year | 104 (16) | 89 (19) | 83 (20) | 276 (18) | 68 (14) | 45 (8) | 55 (11) | 57 (14) | 225 (11) | 501 (14) |
| 1 year | 19 (3) | 25 (5) | 21 (5) | 65 (4) | 17 (3) | 9 (2) | 22 (4) | 24 (6) | 72 (4) | 137 (4) |
| 2–4 years | 54 (8) | 46 (10) | 37 (9) | 137 (9) | 34 (7) | 39 (7) | 51 (10) | 54 (14) | 178 (9) | 315 (9) |
| 5–9 years | 134 (21) | 97 (21) | 81 (19) | 312 (20) | 113 (23) | 141 (26) | 119 (23) | 74 (19) | 447 (23) | 759 (22) |
| 10–14 years | 125 (20) | 81 (18) | 81 (19) | 287 (19) | 113 (23) | 124 (23) | 122 (23) | 80 (20) | 439 (22) | 726 (21) |
| 15–29 years | 114 (18) | 68 (15) | 71 (17) | 253 (17) | 83 (17) | 120 (22) | 87 (17) | 68 (17) | 358 (18) | 611 (18) |
| ≥30 years | 92 (14) | 56 (12) | 50 (12) | 198 (13) | 74 (15) | 73 (13) | 62 (12) | 40 (10) | 249 (13) | 447 (13) |
| Reported deaths | 179 (28) | 94 (20) | 84 (20) | 357 (23) | 99 (20) | 101 (18) | 90 (17) | 49 (12) | 339 (17) | 696 (20) |
Abbreviations: CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; PCV13, 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
a
Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from CSF by culture or detected in CSF by real-time polymerase chain reaction or latex agglutination.
b
Two cases missing age in 2016.