Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006
Research
Neisseria meningitidis Sequence Type and Risk for Death, Iceland
Magnús Gottfreðsson*†
, Mathew A. Diggle‡, David I. Lawrie‡, Helga Erlendsdóttir*, Hjördís Harðardóttir*, Karl G. Kristinsson*†, and Stuart C. Clarke‡§
, Mathew A. Diggle‡, David I. Lawrie‡, Helga Erlendsdóttir*, Hjördís Harðardóttir*, Karl G. Kristinsson*†, and Stuart C. Clarke‡§
Table 2
Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in Iceland *
| Year (no. cases) | No. isolates | Sequence type (ST) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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