Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
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Predominance of Cronobacter sakazakii Sequence Type 4 in Neonatal Infections
Susan Joseph and Stephen J. Forsythe
Table 2
Summary of Cronobacter sakazakii sequence types and source details from study of Cronobacter sakazakii genotypes and disease severity*
| ST | No. infections | Patient details |
Clinical signs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neonate† | Infant‡ | Child | Adult | UNK | Meningitis | Bacteremia | NEC | Infection | Asymptomatic | UNK | |||
| 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 8 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 31 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 41 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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| Total | 41 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 17 | |
*ST, sequence type; UNK, unknown; NEC, necrotizing enterocolitis.
†Age <28 d.
‡Age 28–364 d.
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