Volume 22, Number 7—July 2016
Dispatch
Identification of Streptococcus suis Meningitis through Population-Based Surveillance, Togo, 2010–2014
Haoua Tall, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Didier Mounkoro, Loukoumane Tidjani, Kodjo Agbenoko, Issifou Alassani, Moussa Amidou, Stanislas Tamekloe, Kenneth G. Laing, Adam A. Witney, Jason Hinds, Mark P.G. van der Linden, Bradford D. Gessner, and Jennifer C. Moïsi
Table 1
Characteristics of patients from 2 rural districts with meningitis caused by various pathogens, Togo, 2010–2014
| Characteristic | No. (%) case-patients infected with |
No. (%) all case-patients, N = 489 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. suis, n = 15 | Other Streptococcus sp., n = 9 | S. pneumoniae, n = 89 | Other infections, n = 75* | No etiologic agent, n = 301 | ||
| Age, y | ||||||
| <5 | 0 | 3 (33) | 12 (13) | 22 (29) | 84 (28) | 121 (25) |
| 5–14 | 3 (20) | 0 | 34 (38) | 36 (48) | 74 (25) | 147 (30) |
| 15–29 | 0 | 2 (22) | 23 (26) | 7 (9) | 65 (22) | 97 (20) |
| 30–49 | 7 (47) | 4 (44) | 13 (15) | 8 (11) | 52 (17) | 84 (17) |
| >50 |
5 (33) |
0 |
7 (8) |
2 (3) |
26 (9) |
40 (8) |
| Sex | ||||||
| M | 12 (80) | 6 (67) | 42 (47) | 39 (52) | 156 (52) | 255 (52) |
| F |
0 (0) |
3 (33) |
47 (53) |
36 (48) |
145 (48) |
244 (48) |
| Died |
1 (7) |
1 (11) |
29 (33) |
5 (7) |
41 (14) |
77 (16) |
| Sequelae | ||||||
| Any† | 12 (80) | 2 (22) | 17 (19) | 5 (7) | 27 (9) | 63 (13) |
| Hearing loss‡ | 8 (67) | 1 (50) | 8 (47) | 3 (60) | 4 (15) | 24 (5) |
| Paralysis‡ | 2 (17) | 1 (50) | 3 (18) | 2 (40) | 6 (22) | 14 (3) |
| Visual impairment‡ | 5 (42) | 0 | 2 (12) | 0 | 1 (4) | 8 (2) |
| Seizure disorder‡ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (7) | 2 (0) |
*Includes 60 case-patients with Neisseria meningitidis, 11 with Haemophilus influenzae, 1 with Escherichia coli, 1 with Staphylococcus aureus, 1 with Streptococcus pyogenes, and 1 undetermined.
†Percentages calculated among all patients.
‡Percentages calculated among patients with sequelae.
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