Volume 16, Number 2—February 2010
Dispatch
Coccidioidomycosis among Scholarship Athletes and Other College Students, Arizona, USA1
Nicole G. Stern and John N. Galgiani
Table
Annual case rates per 100,000 for coccidioidomycosis in University of Arizona students and in selected age groups in Pima County, Arizona, and Arizona, USA, 1998–2006*
| Year | University of Arizona students | Age group, y |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15–24 |
15–19 |
20–24 |
25–29 |
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| Pima County | Arizona | Pima County | Arizona | Pima County | Arizona | Pima County | Arizona | |||||
| 1998 | 108 | |||||||||||
| 1999 | 61 | |||||||||||
| 2000 | 53 | 13.3 | 9.23 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 56 | 13.5 | 12.5 | |||||||||
| 2002 | 111 | 25.7 | 17.3 | |||||||||
| 2003 | 69 | 17.4 | 12.0 | |||||||||
| 2004 | 117 | 41 | 32.4 | 33.5 | 30.2 | 48.3 | 34.6 | 40.4 | 37.5 | |||
| 2005 | 147 | 53.2 | 30.1 | 39.7 | 23.6 | 66.3 | 36.7 | 64.9 | 38.4 | |||
| 2006 | 125 | 59.9 | 45.6 | 56.39 | 42.4 | 63.1 | 48.8 | 80.0 | 62.9 | |||
*The University of Arizona campus is located in Pima County. Blank cells indicate age ranges where composite statistics were not available.
1Data were presented at the Valley Fever Center for Excellence/Arizona College of Public Health Jointly Sponsored Mini Symposium, Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, November 12, 2008.
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