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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Dispatch

Streptococcus suis Infection in Hospitalized Patients, Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand

Prabda PraphasiriComments to Author , Jocelynn T. Owusu, Somsak Thammathitiwat, Darunee Ditsungnoen, Pimpawan Boonmongkon, Ornuma Sangwichian, Kriengkrai Prasert, Sankhom Srihapanya, Kanlaya Sornwong, Kazunori Oishi, Surang Dejsirilert, Henry C. Baggett, and Sonja J. Olsen
Author affiliations: Thailand Ministry of Public Health–US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand (P. Praphasiri, J.T. Owusu, S. Thammathitiwat, D. Ditsungnoen, O. Sangwichian, H.C. Baggett, S.J. Olsen); Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand (P. Praphasiri, P. Boonmongkon); Nakhon Phanom Provincial Health Office, Nakhon Phanom (K. Prasert, S. Srihapanya, K. Sornwong); Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi (A. Kerdsin, S. Dejsirilert); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (H.C. Baggett, S.J. Olsen)

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Table 1

Incidence of Streptococcus suis, Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand, 2006–2012

Year Nakhon Phanom
 Thailand
Population, all ages Active surveillance
 Population, all ages† Passive surveillance
No. cases Crude incidence* No. cases‡ Crude incidence*
1997 55,747,667 1 0.002
1998 55,747,667 0 0.000
1999 55,747,667 1 0.002
2000 55,747,667 1 0.002
2001 56,305,980 3 0.005
2002 56,840,337 1 0.002
2003 57,345,943 1 0.002
2004 57,830,569 1 0.002
2005 58,319,021 10 0.017
2006 734,000 2 0.27 58,755,907 41 0.070
2007 738,184 1 0.14 59,199,510 90 0.152
2008 742,500 2 0.27 59,626,014 106 0.178
2009 746,655 3 0.40 60,037,264 229 0.381
2010 751,251 8 1.06 60,435,937 207 0.343
2011 754,931 5 0.66
2012 758,388 17 2.24

*Per 100,000 persons. Blank cells indicate that data were not reported.
†1997–1999 is assumed to be the same as 2000.
‡In 2010, five cases were in persons from Nakhon Phanom; for all other years, 0 cases occurred.

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