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Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006
Research

Neisseria meningitidis Sequence Type and Risk for Death, Iceland

Magnús Gottfreðsson*†Comments to Author , Mathew A. Diggle‡, David I. Lawrie‡, Helga Erlendsdóttir*, Hjördís Harðardóttir*, Karl G. Kristinsson*†, and Stuart C. Clarke‡§
Author affiliations: *Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland; †University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; ‡Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory, Glasgow, United Kingdom; §University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Table 2

Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in Iceland *

Year (no. cases) No. isolates Sequence type (ST)
1 8 10 11 32 40 41 44 60 162 206 275 1314 1323 2148 2266 3435 3464 3492 Other STs
1977 (55) 9 9
1978 (21) 13 10 334, 2986, 3333
1979 (25) 18 13 1 2 13, 1011
1980 (16) 6 3 1 3501, 4013
1981 (18) 11 4 2 2 1423, 2320, 3471
1982 (10) 7 1 1 2 1 1 1
1983 (19) 10 1 2 1 2 2 1 43
1984 (13) 8 6 1 1
1985 (13) 12 2 1 3 1 3 1328 (×2)
1986 (11) 10 1 2 1 2 3 23
1987 (9) 5 1 2 1 1
1988 (7) 6 1 2 1 2
1989 (14) 9 1 1 5 785, 3502
1990 (17) 10 2 1 1 4 2843, 3508
1991 (18) 17 1 5 1 2 1 3 1015, 1154, 3509, 5119
1992 (21) 19 4 4 3 1 1 3 34, 3710 (×2)
1993 (23) 22 5 13 2 1 1
1994 (30) 26 1 5 16 1 1 286, 3756
1995 (14) 10 2 5 1 1 46
1996 (17) 16 1 3 8 1 1 43,467
1997 (20) 18 6 2 5 1 1 22, 944, 1671
1998 (16) 15 4 3 7 1
1999 (20) 20 1 10 4 1 1 352, 3757, 3758
2000 (18) 16 3 6 2 1 1 23,34,3759
2001 (19) 17 12 1 1 1 33, 1943
2002 (16) 14 13 1
2003 (8) 8 2 1 3 1163, 3334
2004 (10) 10 3 2 3 1281, 4178
Total 362 8 16 37 72 89 3 3 4 7 3 9 4 11 9 3 5 3 3 28 45

*The total number of cases is shown with the number of ST isolates available for multilocus sequence typing. Unique STs, those found exclusively in Iceland , are shown in italics. The most prevalent STs for each year are shown in shaded cells.

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