Volume 16, Number 11—November 2010
Research
Decreasing Shigellosis-related Deaths without Shigella spp.–specific Interventions, Asia
Pradip Bardhan, A.S.G. Faruque, Aliya Naheed, and David A. Sack
Table 3
Case-fatality rates for hospitalized patients with Shigella infections, Asia, 1990–2009
| Country | Area | Year | Case-fatality rate by age group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–11 mo | 1–4 y | >5 y | |||
| Bangladesh* | Urban/rural | 1990–1999 | 2.73 | 1.42 | 0.33 |
| Bangladesh† | Urban | 2000–2008 | 1.26 | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh‡ | Rural | 2000–2008 | 0.51 | 0.02 | 0 |
| People’s Republic of China (22) | Rural | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thailand (22) | Rural | 2000–2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indonesia (22) | Rural | 2001–2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vietnam (22) | Urban/rural | 2001–2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pakistan (22) | Rural | 2002–2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh (22) |
Periurban |
2002–2004 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Median | 0.89 | 0.02 | 0 | ||
| Weighted mean, % (95% confidence interval) | 0.80 (0.59–1.03) | 0.1 (0.02–0.25) | |||
*International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB,B) hospital surveillance, 1990–1999.
†ICDDR,B hospital surveillance (urban), 2000–2008.
‡ICDDR,B hospital surveillance (rural), 2000–2008.
