Table 4 Case fatality ratio (%) by disease presentation and center for a study population subset with both blood and cerebrospinal fluid cultures available (n = 46)
Case Fatality Ratio | ||||||||||||
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Panama | Dominican Republic | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Site 1 | Site 2 | |||||||||||
Bacteremia | Meningitis | Total | Bacteremia | Meningitis | Total | Bacteremia | Meningitis | Total | Bacteremia | Meningitis | Total | |
Deaths | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Number of cases | 14 | 3 | 17 | 7 | - | 7 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
Case fatality ratio | 0 % (0–21•5) | 0 % (0–56•2) | 0 % (0–18•4) | 0 % (0–35•4) | - | 0 % (0–35•4) | 0 % (0–65•8) | 42•9 % (15.8–75.0) | 33•3 % (12•1–64•6) | 0 % (0–35•4) | 16•7 % (3•0–56•4) | 78 % (1•4–33•3) |