We studied surveillance data from the New York City. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which showed that during 1989â2000 a decrease occurred in ...
RESEARCH
Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease, New York City, 1989–2000 Alexandre Sampaio Moura,*† Ariel Pablos-Méndez,†‡ Marcelle Layton,* and Don Weiss*
Study of the epidemiologic trends in meningococcal disease is important in understanding infection dynamics and developing timely and appropriate public health interventions. We studied surveillance data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which showed that during 1989–2000 a decrease occurred in both the proportion of patients with serogroup B infection (from 28% to 13% of reported cases; p
