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 Janda
Table 2
Distribution of infections caused by salmonellae other than subspecies I, by sex and age, among 1,342 patients, California, USA, 1985–2009
| Subspecies | No. (%) patients by sex |
No. (%) patients by age group, y |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | <1 | 2–10 | 11–60 | >61 | ||
| II | |||||||
| Feces | 25 (45) | 29 (53) | 31 (56) | 11 (20) | 7 (13) | 0 | |
| Extraintestinal | 1 (20) | 4 (80) | 1 (20) | 0 | 4 (80) | 0 | |
| IIIa | |||||||
| Feces | 146 (63) | 84 (36) | 30 (13) | 108 (47) | 32 (14) | 8 (3) | |
| Extraintestinal | 154 (66) | 77 (33) | 4 (2) | 126 (54) | 79 (34) | 15 (6) | |
| IIIb | |||||||
| Feces | 160 (48) | 161 (49) | 48 (15) | 155 (47) | 44 (13) | 18 (5) | |
| Extraintestinal | 35 (31) | 77 (68) | 9 (8) | 56 (50) | 36 (32) | 6 (5) | |
| IV | |||||||
| Feces | 168 (50) | 159 (48) | 173 (52) | 46 (14) | 67 (20) | 15 (5) | |
| Extraintestinal | 18 (41) | 26 (59) | 12 (27) | 9 (21) | 15 (34) | 7 (16) | |
| Total* | 707 (53) | 617 (46) | 349 (26) | 157 (12) | 538 (40) | 213 (16) | |
| Feces | 499 (53) | 433 (46) | 321 (34) | 135 (14) | 337 (35) | 91 (10) | |
| Extraintestinal | 208 (53) | 184 (46) | 28 (7) | 22 (6) | 201 (51) | 122 (31) | |
*Numbers do not total 1,342 because data were not available for some patients.
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