Volume 9, Number 3—March 2003
Research
Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease, New York City, 1989–2000
Alexandre Sampaio Moura*†, Ariel Pablos-Méndez†‡, Marcelle Layton*, and Don Weiss*
Table 3
Annual incidence rates of Neisseria meningitidis, serogroups B and Y, New York City, 1989–2000a
| Age group (yr) | 1989–1991 |
1992–1994 |
1995–1997 |
1998–2000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B |
Y |
B |
Y |
B |
Y |
B |
Y |
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| No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | |
| <1 |
15 |
5.8 |
2 |
0.78 |
11 |
4.3 |
1 |
0.39 |
9 |
2.7 |
3 |
0.91 |
4 |
1.2 |
5 |
1.5 |
| 1–4 |
13 |
1.0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0.39 |
2 |
0.16 |
4 |
0.31 |
2 |
0.15 |
2 |
0.15 |
1 |
0.08 |
| 5–14 |
3 |
0.11 |
1 |
0.04 |
4 |
0.15 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0.09 |
3 |
0.09 |
1 |
0.03 |
9 |
0.27 |
| 15–24 |
9 |
0.29 |
1 |
0.03 |
5 |
0.16 |
4 |
0.13 |
2 |
0.06 |
3 |
0.09 |
3 |
0.09 |
7 |
0.21 |
| 24–44 |
6 |
0.08 |
1 |
0.01 |
4 |
0.05 |
1 |
0.01 |
8 |
0.10 |
15 |
0.19 |
3 |
0.04 |
7 |
0.09 |
| 45–64 |
5 |
0.12 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.02 |
2 |
0.04 |
2 |
0.04 |
11 |
0.22 |
4 |
0.08 |
17 |
0.33 |
| ≥65 |
3 |
0.10 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0.14 |
3 |
0.10 |
2 |
0.07 |
8 |
0.28 |
2 |
0.07 |
10 |
0.36 |
| All ages | 54 | 0.25 | 5 | 0.02 | 34 | 0.15 | 13 | 0.06 | 30 | 0.12 | 45 | 0.19 | 19 | 0.08 | 56 | 0.23 |
aRates are per 100,000 and use 1990 and 2000 census figures.
