Sites of infection in patients with invasive pneumococcal disease

Clinical syndrome	Incidence*^[1]
Bacteremic pneumonia (with or without empyema)	116
Bacteremia of unknown source	7
Meningitis	5
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis	5
Septic arthritis	2
Endocarditis	2
Spinal epidural abscess	1
Osteomyelitis	1
Dental abscess	1

IPD: invasive pneumococcal disease.

* Areas of involvement in 136 patients with IPD at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the United States from 2000 to 2009. Number of sites involved exceeds the number of patients because several patients had more than one site involved.

Reference:

Rueda AM, Serpa JA, Matloobi M, et al. The spectrum of invasive pneumococcal disease at an adult tertiary care hospital in the early 21st century. Medicine (Baltimore) 2010; 89:331.

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Sites of infection in patients with invasive pneumococcal disease