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Guidelines for the Early Clinical and Public Health Management of Bacterial Meningitis (including Meningococcal Disease)
Appendix 1.
Annual Number of Bacterial Meningitis Notifications by Causative Pathogen, 1999-2010
Pathogen 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total
Neisseria meningitidis* 536 515 330 253 237 198 203 209 179 168 147 114 3089
Pathogen – Unknown 15 31 33 20 27 28 21 36 22 17 25 22 297
Streptococcus pneumoniae 19 25 20 15 25 22 19 24 35 32 28 20 284
Mycobacterium tuberculosis‡ 7 6 2 6 8 6 9 7 6 6 8 n/a 71
Haemophilus influenzae† 2 6 2 3 7 4 9 4 2 3 3 2 47
Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) 4 3 3 2 2 6 5 4 9 6 7 9 60
Escherichia coli 4 2 3 0 4 1 0 3 0 11 3 2 33
Listeria sp. 0 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 3 3 1 3 18
Staphylococcus aureus 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 6 15
Leptospira sp. 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 5
Streptococcus pyogenes 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 4
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Salmonella sp. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
Enterococcus faecalis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
Staphylococcus capitis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Citrobacter koseri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Coagulase negative staphylococcus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Enterobacter sp. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Gamella sp. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Group C streptococcus 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Klebsiella pneumoniae 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Mycoplasma pneumoniae 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Proteus mirabilis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Streptococcus bovis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Streptococcus Group D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Streptococcus sp. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Serratia liquefaciens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Sphingomonas paucimobilis 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Total 587 590 396 300 314 268 271 292 259 255 229 182 3943
* includes meningococcal septicaemia cases also
† 1999-2003, based on data from the bacterial meningitis database; 2004 – date, based on data from CIDR
‡ based on data from National TB Surveillance System (NTBSS), figures for 2009 are provisional, data for 2010 not yet available
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