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Volume 25, Number 1—January 2019
Research

Risk Factors for Elizabethkingia Acquisition and Clinical Characteristics of Patients, South Korea

Min Hyuk Choi, Myungsook Kim, Su Jin Jeong, Jun Yong Choi1Comments to Author , In-Yong Lee, Tai-Soon Yong, Dongeun Yong, Seok Hoon Jeong, and Kyungwon Lee1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea (M.H. Choi); Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (M.H. Choi, M. Kim, S.J. Jeong, J.Y. Choi, I.-Y. Lee, T.-S. Yong, D. Yong, S.H. Jeong, K. Lee)

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Table 1

Annual incidence and characteristics of Elizabethkingia acquisitions at a tertiary teaching hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Characteristic 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Jan–Jun
No. cases
2
2
10
23
29
39
30
84
50
Incidence
Per 1 million inpatient-days 2.93 2.98 14.60 33.14 42.43 55.74 40.66 109.82 127.79
Per 1,000 inpatients
0.02
0.02
0.10
0.23
0.30
0.39
0.28
0.75
0.88
Sample type, no., may be multiple
Respiratory 2 0 2 14 25 27 26 76 48
Blood culture 0 2 2 2 2 3 1 4 3
Urine culture 0 0 5 2 2 3 1 1 0
Other*
0
0
1
5
1
7
2
6
1
Species, no.
E. anophelis 1 2 2 7 16 17 15 45 34
E miricola 0 0 5 1 4 5 11 25 12
E. meningoseptica 1 0 3 3 5 4 1 4 2
Unconfirmed† 0 0 0 12 4 13 3 10 2

*Includes 12 from body fluids, 4 wound swabs, 3 catheter tips, 2 oral swabs, 1 eye swab, and 1 ear swab.
†Includes strains that were not stored for identification.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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