Acute Respiratory Tract Infections among Hospitalized Palestinian Patients (2011–2016): A Retrospective Study

Table 2

Frequency and incidence rates of confirmed respiratory tract infection-related hospitalization stratified by gender.

Organism	Suspected (n = 15413)	Confirmed (n = 4422)		Male		Female
	N (%)	N (%)	IR^a	N (%)	IR^a	N (%)	IR^a
B. pertussis	1403 (9.1)	324 (7.3)	11.7	160 (7.5)	11.4	153 (6.8)	11.2
Influenza A	11593 (75.2)	3555 (80.4)	128.4	1695 (79.4)	120.5	1848 (81.7)	135.7
Influenza A (H1N1)	5379 (34.9)	1373 (31.0)	49.6	667 (31.3)	47.4	702 (31.0)	51.6
Influenza B	699 (4.5)	61 (1.4)	2.2	29 (1.4)	2.1	32 (1.4)	2.3
RSV	1271 (8.2)	449 (10.2)	16.2	233 (10.9)	16.6	213 (9.4)	15.6
Enterovirus	139 (0.9)	9 (0.2)	0.3	4 (0.2)	0.3	5 (0.2)	0.4
Adenovirus	290 (1.9)	21 (0.5)	0.8	10 (0.5)	0.7	11 (0.5)	0.8
S. pneumonia	18 (0.1)	3 (0.1)	0.1	3 (0.1)	0.2	0 (0.0)	0.0

^aIR: incidence rate (hospitalized patients per 10⁵ population). Population was calculated as the average population in the West Bank between 2011 and 2016 according to PCBS data.