Volume 16, Number 6—June 2010
Dispatch
Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis for Salmonella Infection Surveillance, Texas, USA, 2007
Table 1
Case-patient characteristic | No. cases reported to HDHHS (%), n = 145 | Incidence rate,† n = 145 | No. (%) case-patients assigned a PFGE pattern, n = 106 | No. (%) case-patients assigned a PFGE pattern and interviewed, n = 96 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sex | ||||
M | 65 (44.8) | 10.0 | 50 (47.2) | 45 (46.9) |
F |
80 (55.2) |
12.3 |
56 (52.8) |
51 (53.1) |
Age, y | ||||
<1 | 27 (18.6) | 119.3 | 21 (19.8) | 19 (19.8) |
1–4 | 40 (27.6) | 47.3 | 31 (29.2) | 27 (28.1) |
5–19 | 21 (14.5) | 7.3 | 11 (10.4) | 11 (11.5) |
20–34 | 9 (6.2) | 2.6 | 7 (6.6) | 7 (7.3) |
35–54 | 20 (13.8) | 5.5 | 15 (14.2) | 13 (13.5) |
55–74 | 16 (11.0) | 10.4 | 13 (12.3) | 11 (11.5) |
>75 |
12 (8.3) |
25.4 |
8 (7.5) |
8 (8.3) |
Race/ethnicity | ||||
White | ||||
Non-Hispanic | 37 (25.5) | 9.2 | 27 (25.5) | 25 (26.0) |
Hispanic | 70 (48.3) | 14.4 | 45 (42.4) | 43 (44.8) |
Black | 23 (15.9) | 7.1 | 20 (18.9) | 17 (17.7) |
Asian | 9 (6.2) | 13.1 | 9 (8.5) | 9 (9.4) |
Unknown |
6 (4.1) |
‡ |
5 (4.7) |
2 (2.1) |
Total | 145 | 11.1 | 106 | 96 |
*HDHHS, Houston Department of Health and Human Services; PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
†Rate was calculated as number of cases/100,000 population/year, based on the 8-month study period.
‡Rate was not calculable.
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