Volume 11, Number 1—January 2005
Research
Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Brazil, 1981–2002
João Bosco Siqueira*†
, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli†, Giovanini Evelim Coelho*, Ana Cristina da Rocha Simplício*, and Douglas L. Hatch*‡
, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli†, Giovanini Evelim Coelho*, Ana Cristina da Rocha Simplício*, and Douglas L. Hatch*‡
Table 2
Dengue incidence and hospitalization (per 100,000 population) by age group, Brazil, 1998–2002
| Age (y) | 1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incidence | Hosp* | Incidence | Hosp | Incidence | Hosp | Incidence | Hosp | Incidence | Hosp | |
| 0–4 | 39.6 | 1.1 | 27.2 | 0.5 | 29.6 | 1.1 | 68.8 | 2.9 | 121.9 | 10.3 |
| 5–14 | 68.2 | 2.1 | 45.4 | 1.6 | 51.8 | 3.0 | 131.7 | 7.0 | 213.7 | 19.6 |
| 15–29 | 145.6 | 4.5 | 102.7 | 4.1 | 111.3 | 7.5 | 263.5 | 16.6 | 410.3 | 36.6 |
| 30–49 | 156.3 | 4.7 | 120.3 | 4.4 | 128.0 | 7.2 | 305.7 | 16.7 | 432.7 | 36.1 |
| >50 | 120.0 | 6.5 | 92.0 | 5.7 | 88.3 | 8.4 | 237.3 | 20.7 | 323.6 | 43.7 |
| Total | 117.2 | 4.0 | 85.7 | 3.5 | 92.3 | 6.0 | 225.3 | 14.1 | 335.3 | 31.6 |
*Hospitalization rates.
Medline reports the first author "Teixeira MG" is not correct in the reference 32 "Teixeira, Barreto, Costa, Ferreira, Vasconcelos, Cairncross, 2002".
Page created: April 14, 2011
Page updated: April 14, 2011
Page reviewed: April 14, 2011
The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.