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Volume 17, Number 1—January 2011
Letter

Change in Age Pattern of Persons with Dengue, Northeastern Brazil

Luciano P. CavalcantiComments to Author , Dina Vilar, Reinaldo Souza-Santos, and Maria G. Teixeira
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil (L.P. Cavalcanti); Health Secretariat of Ceará State, Fortaleza (D. Vilar); National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (R. Souza-Santos); Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil (M.G. Teixeira)

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Table

Confirmed cases of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever, Ceará, Brazil, 1998–2008*

Characteristic 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
No. DF cases 3,581 9,757 13,645 34,390 16,465 23,796 3,094 22,817 25,569 25,026 44,508
No. DHF cases
 4
 3
 4
 82
 72
 292
 14
 199
 173
 280
 408
Serotype of DENV isolated, %
1 – – – 47.7 48.5 1.9 0 2.5 0 0 0
2 – – – 52.3 7.4 1.9 0 0.0 1.4 84.0 76.1
3
 –
 –
 –
 0
 44.1
 96.2
 100.0
 97.5
 98.6
 16.0
 23.9
Incidence of DF and DHF by age, y†
<10 10.8 37.8 65.4 174.7 78.5 128.0 14.3 126.5 116.0 236.7 599.4
10–19 26.7 95.4 129.3 321.4 160.6 250.4 34.3 198.2 247.9 305.6 574.4
20–59 68.3 198.7 263.6 659.3 304.3 416.9 53.6 365.2 412.6 331.5 521.9
>60
 143.1
 210.0
 194.8
 423.4
 223.3
 313.0
 39.1
 441.5
 422.2
 249.9
 301.0
Incidence of DHF by age, y†
<10 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.236 0.114 1.423 0.068 1.011 0.890 4.884 8.992
10–19 0.062 0.000 0.059 0.796 0.449 3.601 0.065 2.512 1.771 3.261 4.968
20–59 0.064 0.094 0.058 1.361 1.474 4.655 0.318 3.074 3.053 3.387 4.358
>60
 0.174
 0.000
 0.152
 1.890
 1.289
 5.134
 0.000
 2.650
 0.832
 2.789
 2.868
Hospitalizations for dengue (classic and hemorrhagic) by age, y‡
<10 0.008 0.014 0.015 0.050 0.145 0.352 0.073 0.395 0.266 0.667 1.449
10–19 0.006 0.010 0.020 0.131 0.255 0.632 0.156 0.646 0.497 0.750 1.128
20–59 0.005 0.011 0.024 0.256 0.440 0.847 0.255 0.804 0.572 0.710 0.786
>60 0.009 0.009 0.021 0.401 0.658 1.159 0.389 1.012 0.664 0.954 0.922

*Source: Hospitalization Information System, Notifiable Disease Information System, and Central Public Health Laboratory of Ceará. DF, dengue fever; DHF, dengue hemorrhagic fever, DENV, dengue virus; –, no information.
†Per 100,000 persons.
‡Per 1,000 persons.

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