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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*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA; †Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ‡Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York, USA

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Table 2

Meningococcal incidence rates and case-fatality rates by age group and year group, New York City, 1989–2000a

Age group (yr) 1989–1991 1992–1994 1995–1997 1998–2000 1989–2000 Case-fatality rate (%)
<1
 15.9
 8.15
 7.25
 4.23
 8.49
 13.0
1–4
 2.83
 1.10
 1.24
 0.85
 1.50
 13.0
5–14
 0.77
 0.37
 0.61
 0.40
 0.53
 7.8
15–24
 0.99
 0.76
 0.45
 0.72
 0.77
 10.6
25–44
 0.34
 0.21
 0.49
 0.47
 0.38
 17.1
45–64
 0.47
 0.26
 0.61
 0.55
 0.48
 24.4
>65
 0.77
 0.45
 0.75
 0.60
 0.64
 32.9
All ages 0.89 0.50 0.69 0.60 0.67 16.9

aRates are per 100,000.

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