Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
THEME ISSUE
International Polar Year
Research
Invasive Bacterial Diseases in Northern Canada
, Marguerite Lovgren‡, and the Canadian International Circumpolar Surveillance Working Group
Table 5
Crude annualized incidence of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, GAS, and GBS by ethnicity in the Canadian circumpolar region, 1999–2005*
| Organism, ethnicity | Incidence/100,000 population/year (no. cases) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1999–2002 | 2003–2005 | |
| S. pneumoniae | ||
| Non-aboriginal | 9.6 (20) | 10.2 (16) |
| Aboriginal | 44.2 (134) | 25.1 (57) |
| 2000–2002 | 2003–2005 | |
| H. influenzae | ||
| Non-aboriginal | 0.6 (1) | 1.9 (3) |
| Aboriginal | 11.9 (27) | 8.4 (19) |
| GAS | ||
| Non-aboriginal | 0 | 1.9 (3) |
| Aboriginal | 5.7 (13) | 11.0 (25) |
| GBS | ||
| Non-aboriginal | 2.6 (4) | 1.9 (3) |
| Aboriginal | 2.2 (5) | 1.3 (3) |
*GAS, group A streptococci; GBS, group B streptococci.
1Current affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation, Research and Surveillance, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
2The Canadian International Circumpolar Surveillance Working Group includes the following members: Colleen Hemsley, Bryce Larke (Yukon Health and Social Services, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada); Cheryl Case, Norine Fraley (Northwest Territories Health and Social Services, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories); Carolina Palacios (Canada Nunavut Health and Social Services, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada); Robert Carlin (Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, Montreal, Québec, Canada, and Ministère de Santé et Services Sociaux, Québec City, Quebec, Canada); Jean-François Proulx (Canada Direction de Santé Publique du Nunavik, Kuujjuak, Québec, Canada, and Ministère de Santé et Services Sociaux, Québec City, Quebec, Canada); Jane McGillivray, Paulette Roberts (Health Labrador Corporation, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada); Louise Jetté, Robert A. Laurence, Louise Ringuette (Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada); Marguerite Lovgren, Gregory Tyrrell (National Centre for Streptococcus, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada); Raymond Tsang (National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada); Shelley L. Deeks, Christine Navarro, Nadine Abboud (Canada Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada); Michael G. Bruce, Tammy Zulz (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anchorage, Alaska, USA).