Volume 17, Number 6—June 2011
Research
Binary Toxin and Death after Clostridium difficile Infection
Sabrina Bacci
, Kåre Mølbak, Marianne K. Kjeldsen, and Katharina E.P. Olsen
, Kåre Mølbak, Marianne K. Kjeldsen, and Katharina E.P. Olsen
Table 1
Characteristics of case-patients according to group of Clostridium difficile infection, week 1, 2008–week 22, 2009, Denmark
| Characteristic | No. (%) CD unselected, n = 1,822 | No binary toxin |
Presence of binary toxin |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) CD A and B, n = 212 | No. (%) CD 027, n = 193 | No. (%) CD non-027, n = 72* | ||||
| Male sex |
796 (43.7) |
100 (47.2) |
87 (45.1) |
31 (43.1) |
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| Age group, y | ||||||
| <50 | 494 (27.1) | 30 (14.2) | 9 (4.6) | 7 (9.7) | ||
| 50–59 | 166 (9.1) | 14 (6.6) | 8 (4.1) | 8 (11.1) | ||
| 60–69 | 280 (15.4) | 33 (15.6) | 25 (13.0) | 14 (19.4) | ||
| 70–79 | 367 (20.1) | 70 (33.0) | 52 (26.9) | 16 (22.2) | ||
| >80 |
514 (28.2) |
65 (30.7) |
99 (51.3) |
27 (37.5) |
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| Region of local microbiology laboratory | ||||||
| Capital region | 263 (14.4) | 46 (21.7) | 164 (85.0) | 22 (30.5) | ||
| Other parts of Denmark | 1,502 (83.4) | 158 (74.4) | 29 (15.0) | 50 (69.4) | ||
*Consisting of C. difficile (CD) PCR ribotype 078 (n = 24), PCR ribotype 066 (n = 26), and PCR ribotype 023 and others (n = 22).
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