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Table 6.

Distribution of cases and total annual hospital care costs by age group for invasive GAS infections, England 2008–2010

Age group	No. of cases (%)	Total annual costs (million £)
Age group	No. of cases (%)	Lower estimate (%)	Upper estimate (%)
All ages	3383^* (100·0)	4·43 (100·0)	6·34 (100·0)
0–15 years	539 (15·9)	0·53 (12·0)	0·72 (11·4)
16–64 years	1346 (39·8)	2·11 (47·6)	3·03 (47·8)
⩾65 years	1498 (44·2)	1·80 (40·6)	2·58 (40·7)

GAS, Group A streptococcal.

Cases included from the full dataset (n = 3696) were those with a linked primary hospital admission (n = 3400) after removal of cases which could not be costed (n = 17).