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Table 3 Number (%) of children with bacteraemia and severe falciparum malaria by residence, 1 June 2006 to 31 May 2010

From: Decreasing incidence of severe malaria and community-acquired bacteraemia among hospitalized children in Muheza, north-eastern Tanzania, 2006-2010

District (population under 15 years*)

Number (%) with severe falciparum malaria

Number (%) with bacteraemia

  

All pathogenic

NTS

Hib

S. pneumoniae

E. coli

S. typhi

S. aureus

Referral population:

        

Muheza** (124, 322)

1, 356 (71.4)

482 (70.5)

147 (63.4)

56 (60.9)

69 (81.2)

56 (70.9)

49 (83.1)

22 (68.8)

Non-referral population:

        

Lushoto (218, 957)

1 (0.1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Korogwe (118, 460)

61 (3.2)

18 (2.6)

9 (3.9)

0 (0)

4 (4.7)

2 (2.5)

0 (0)

2 (6.3)

Tanga (98, 177)

10 (0.5)

6 (0.9)

2 (0.9)

1 (1.1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (3.4)

0 (0)

Pangani (18, 292)

10 (0.5)

3 (0.4)

1 (0.4)

1 (1.1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (3.1)

Handeni (123, 762)

374 (19.7)

151 (22.1)

63 (27.2)

27 (29.3)

8 (9.4)

21 (26.6)

7 (11.9)

6 (18.8)

Kilindi (74, 228)

1 (0.1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

District not recorded

85 (4.5)

24 (3.5)

10 (4.3)

7 (7.6)

4 (4.7)

0 (0)

1 (1.7)

1 (3.1)

Total Tanga region (776, 198)

1, 898 (100)

684 (100)

232 (100)

92 (100)

85 (100)

79 (100)

59 (100)

32 (100)

  1. *2008 population projected from the 2002 Tanzania Population and Housing Census (Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics 2006).
  2. **Includes Mkinga which was split-off from Muheza in 2007.