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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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Table 1

Average annual incidence of notified cases of non–pregnancy-associated listeriosis, by age and gender, Germany, 2010–2019*

Patient age, y No. male case-patients Incidence among male case-patients No. female case-patients Incidence among female case-patients Overall no. cases Overall incidence
Total 3,029 0.74 2,032 0.48 5,061 0.61
≤17 15 0.02 22 0.03 37 0.03
18–44 84 0.06 87 0.07 171 0.06
45–49 56 0.21 37 0.14 93 0.18
50–54 120 0.35 68 0.20 188 0.28
55–59 195 0.58 100 0.30 295 0.44
60–64 280 1.01 145 0.51 425 0.75
65–69 389 1.68 207 0.81 596 1.23
70–74 509 2.96 295 1.51 804 2.19
75–79 612 3.53 371 1.73 983 2.54
80–84 452 3.30 369 1.92 821 2.49
≥85 317 3.99 331 2.08 648 2.71

*Incidence is given as no. cases/100,000 residents.

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