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Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Dispatch

Sentinel Listeriosis Surveillance in Selected Hospitals, China, 2013–2017

Weiwei Li, Li Bai, Xiaochen Ma, Xiuli Zhang, Xinpeng Li, Xiaorong Yang, Jennifer Y. Huang, Séamus Fanning, and Yunchang GuoComments to Author 
Author affiliations: China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China (W. Li, L. Bai, Y. Guo); Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (X. Ma); Henan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China (X. Zhang); Shandong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China (X. Li); Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China (X. Yang); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.Y. Huang); University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (S. Fanning)

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Table 1

Demographic data of 211 listeriosis case-patients reported by 64 sentinel hospitals, by risk group, China, 2013–2017*

Characteristic Pregnancy-associated, no. (%)
 Not pregnancy-associated, no. (%)
 Total, no. (%)
Total
 138 (65.4)
 73 (34.6)
 211 (100.0)
Sex
F 138 (100.0) 36 (49.3) 174 (82.5)
M
 0
 0
 0
Specimen source
Blood 86 (62.3) 57 (78.1) 143 (67.8)
CSF 8 (5.8) 11 (15.1) 19 (9.0)
Other†
 NA
 5 (6.9)
 5 (2.4)
Product of conception
 44 (31.9)
 NA
 44 (20.9)
Death or fetal loss 43 (31.2)
 12 (16.4)
 55 (26.1)

*CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; NA, nonapplicable.
†Including pleural effusion, cystic liquid, bone marrow, and feces.

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