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Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006
Research

Neisseria meningitidis Sequence Type and Risk for Death, Iceland

Magnús Gottfreðsson*†Comments to Author , Mathew A. Diggle‡, David I. Lawrie‡, Helga Erlendsdóttir*, Hjördís Harðardóttir*, Karl G. Kristinsson*†, and Stuart C. Clarke‡§
Author affiliations: *Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland; †University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; ‡Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory, Glasgow, United Kingdom; §University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Table 5

Multivariate analysis of death rate in patients with invasive meningococcal disease, Iceland, 1977–2004*

Variable OR (95% CI) p value
Age 1.031 (1.016–1.048) 0.0001
Unique ST† 3.225 (1.311–7.934) 0.011
Positive CSF culture‡ 0.381 (0.147–0.984) 0.046

*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; ST, sequence type; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.
†Infection with an isolate with an ST unique to the country, in comparison to other, previously described STs.
‡Positive CSF culture only, in comparison to all other sources of positive culture, including blood only and blood and CSF.

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