Figures & data
Figure 1. Absolute numbers of N. meningitis serogroup Y cases in various European countries in 2013 and proportion of serogroup Y IMD in various European countries in 2010–2013. The figure is based on data communicated by the scientists listed in the Acknowledgment or published web pages of national institutes.2 The data for 2013 is compared with data from 2010 to 2012, which has been communicated earlier.1 Color coding refers to 2013 data. Data which were not available to the authors for countries are shown in white. For IMD cases in Luxemburg, no sero-grouping has been carried out in 2013. One case of IMD reported in Romania in 2013 was either caused by serogroup W or Y and the indicated proportion of 2.7% applies if this case was caused by serogroup Y.
Figure 2. Mean age of patients affected by meningococcal serogroup Y from a variety of European countries between 2000 to 2013.
Figure 3. Outlier Box Plot to see the age distribution of serogroup Y affected patients based on 7 European countries (see text). A line through the middle of the diamond would show the mean age, the median age by the vertical line right to the diamond. The inner quartile range representing the 25th and 75th quantiles is indicated by the horizontal box.
