Fig. 2.

An area chart showing age-stratified admissions for spondylodiscitis (ICD-10: M46.4 ​+ ​M46.3+ M46.2) per 100,000 population from 2012/13 to 2020/21 for the following age groups: age 18, 19, 20–24, 25–29, 30–34, 35–39, 40–44, 45–49, 50–54, 55–59, 60–64, 65-59, 70–74, 75–79, 80–84, 85–89, 90+ years. On the x-axis is the time in years from 2012/13 to 2020/21, and on the y-axis is the number of admissions per 100,000 population for spondylodiscitis in the respective year for the respective age group. The colours are categorically chosen to represent and differentiate between the different age groups. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)