Table 2.

Number of patients, deaths and case fatality rate (CFR) by clinical, laboratory and time variables as recorded on admission of 293 meningococcal disease patients

^*All five patients aged >70 years hospitalized during 1994–2002.

^†Tonsillopharyngeal isolates included (n=26).

^‡One isolate from synovial fluid.

^§P=variable variations between two time periods.