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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 2

Distribution of PCR serogroups and ST types identified among 108 isolates from listeriosis case-patients, by risk group, China, 2013–2017*

Characteristic Pregnancy-associated, no. (%)
Not pregnancy-associated, no. (%)
Total, no. (%)
Total
76 (70.4)
32 (29.6)
108 (100.0)
PCR serogroups
IIa 30 (39.5) 15 (46.9) 45 (41.7)
IIb 32 (42.1) 13 (40.6) 45 (41.7)
IVb 13 (17.1) 3 (9.4) 16 (14.8)
IIc
1 (1.3)
1 (3.1)
2 (1.9)
MLST types
ST87 14 (18.4) 3 (9.4) 17 (15.7)
ST8 11 (14.5) 4 (12.5) 15 (13.9)
ST619 4 (5.3) 4 (12.5) 8 (7.4)
ST155 2 (2.6) 4 (12.5) 6 (5.6)
Other STs 45 (59.2)
17 (53.1)
62 (57.4)

*MLST, multilocus sequencing typing; ST, sequence type.

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