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. 2017 Jan 28;4(1):ofx007. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx007

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Figure 1. — Population data related to herpes zoster (HZ) in Miyazaki Prefecture. Horizontal and vertical axes indicate the age and number of patients, respectively. (A) The total population of Miyazaki Prefecture was 1.12 million, including 525 317 men and 594 595 women, based on census data from 2009 to 2015. (B) The 34 877 patients with HZ from June 2009 to November 2015. Of the 34 877 patients with clinical diagnosis of HZ, the mean number of patients with HZ per year increased at ≥50 years, with women being more affected than men in that age group. (C) The age- and gender-dependent distribution of 2438 polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-diagnosed patients with HZ. The distribution of patients with PCR-diagnosed HZ was similar to that of patients with clinical diagnosis of HZ shown in B. (D) The age- and gender-dependent distribution of 1076 patients with recurrent HZ among a total of 16 784 patients with HZ. The number of patients with recurrent HZ per year increased with age, and the ratio of female patients with recurrent HZ was much more than that of HZ shown in B. Male and female populations are shown in blue and red columns, respectively.