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Volume 12, Number 11—November 2006
Research

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Germany

Johannes Elias*, Dag Harmsen†, Heike Claus*, Wiebke Hellenbrand‡, Matthias Frosch*, and Ulrich Vogel*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; †University Hospital, Muenster, Germany; ‡Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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Figure 2

Retrospective identification of a cluster (cluster 10) of the finetype C:P1.5,2:F3–3 in 3 temporal planes using SaTScan (11). Planes A, B, and C represent consecutive temporal windows of 30 days in 2003. Cases with the finetype in question are shown by dark ovals defined by the dimensions longitude, latitude, and time. Although planes A and C do not show spatial clustering, plane B shows an accumulation of 4 cases in 2 counties within a circle encompassing a population of 339,185 (radius 28.78 k

Figure 2. Retrospective identification of a cluster (cluster 10) of the finetype C:P1.5,2:F3–3 in 3 temporal planes using SaTScan (11). Planes A, B, and C represent consecutive temporal windows of 30 days in 2003. Cases with the finetype in question are shown by dark ovals defined by the dimensions longitude, latitude, and time. Although planes A and C do not show spatial clustering, plane B shows an accumulation of 4 cases in 2 counties within a circle encompassing a population of 339,185 (radius 28.78 km, p = 0.004; marked by a gray oval). Counties of Germany are shaded according to their population density (darker indicates a higher population density).

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