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.