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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 1

Rates of meningococcal disease, New York City, 1905–2000

Yr group or yr Casesa Annual rate/100,000
1905–1916
 7,038
 12.3
1917–1928
 3,715
 5.44
1929–1940
 3,844
 4.29
1941–1952
 4,505
 4.75
1953–1964
 1,007
 1.08
1965–1976
 707
 0.75
1977–1988
 986
 1.16
1989
 87
 1.19
1990
 79
 1.08
1991
 30
 0.41
1992
 27
 0.37
1993
 40
 0.55
1994
 42
 0.57
1995
 54
 0.73
1996
 59
 0.80
1997
 54
 0.73
1998
 35
 0.47
1999
 59
 0.79
2000
 50
 0.62
1989–2000 615 0.67

aBefore 1945, meningococcal disease was classified as cerebrospinal fever or epidemic spinal meningitis.

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