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Volume 27, Number 9—September 2021
Dispatch

Ongoing High Incidence and Case-Fatality Rates for Invasive Listeriosis, Germany, 2010–2019

Hendrik WilkingComments to Author , Raskit Lachmann, Alexandra Holzer, Sven Halbedel, Antje Flieger, and Klaus Stark
Author affiliations: Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (H. Wilking, R. Lachmann, A. Holzer, K. Stark); Department for Infectious Diseases of the Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany (S. Halbedel, A. Flieger)

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Figure 1

Distribution of pregnancy-associated and non–pregnancy-associated listeriosis cases, by year and quarter, Germany, 2010–2019 (n = 5,576). In the x-axis labels, I corresponds to January–March, II to April–June, III to July–September, and IV to October–December. Before the third quarter of 2015, two groups of patients were not included in the reference definition: those with unknown or unfulfilled clinical criteria and those with nucleic acid detection only. Data from these groups are displayed separately to make the changes in trends over time more apparent.

Figure 1. Distribution of pregnancy-associated and non–pregnancy-associated listeriosis cases, by year and quarter, Germany, 2010–2019 (n = 5,576). In the x-axis labels, I corresponds to January–March, II to April–June, III to July–September, and IV to October–December. Before the third quarter of 2015, two groups of patients were not included in the reference definition: those with unknown or unfulfilled clinical criteria and those with nucleic acid detection only. Data from these groups are displayed separately to make the changes in trends over time more apparent.

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