Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012
Dispatch
Increase in Extraintestinal Infections Caused by Salmonella enterica Subspecies II–IV
Sharon L. Abbott
, Frank C.Y. Ni, and J. Michael Janda
, Frank C.Y. Ni, and J. Michael JandaTable 1
Location of infections caused by salmonellae other than subspecies I among 1,342 patients, California, USA, 1985–2009
| Site | % Subspecies |
% Total, n = 1,342 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| II, n = 60 | IIIa, n = 463 | IIIb, n = 443 | IV, n = 376 | ||
| Feces* | 85 | 33 | 59 | 79 | 71 |
| Extraintestinal* | 15 | 67 | 41 | 21 | 29 |
| Blood† | 0 | 51 | 19 | 57 | 42 |
| Urine† | 80 | 21 | 60 | 18 | 33 |
| Wound/abscess† | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Respiratory tract† | 0 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 6 |
| Other‡ | 20 | 15 | 6 | 18 | 13 |
| Cerebrospinal fluid | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 |
*Percentage of total of each subspecies relative to intestinal or extraintestinal sites.
†Percentage of total within each subspecies.
‡Includes genital tract, eye, tissue, gallbladder, and ascites fluid.
