Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Human Pasteurellosis Health Risk for Elderly Persons Living with Companion Animals
Sándor Körmöndi, Gabriella Terhes
, Zoltán Pál, Endre Varga, Mária Harmati, Kriszina Buzás, and Edit Urbán
, Zoltán Pál, Endre Varga, Mária Harmati, Kriszina Buzás, and Edit Urbán
Table 3
Presence of underlying disease in cases of local and invasive Pasteurella spp. infections among patients in Szeged, Hungary, 2002–2015
| Underlying disease | No. (%) patients |
|
|---|---|---|
| Local infection | Invasive infection | |
| Malignancy | 0 | 10 (20.8) |
| Cardiac | 0 | 6 (12.5) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 4 (3.5) | 6 (12.5) |
| Pulmonary | 0 | 2 (4.2) |
| Hepatic (cirrhosis) | 0 | 2 (4.2) |
| Prosthesis | 0 | 2 (4.2) |
| Psychiatric | 1 (0.9) | 1 (2.1) |
| Genetic (Down syndrome) | 0 | 1 (2.1) |
| Multiple | 1 (0.9) | 7 (14.6) |
| No data |
106 (93) |
11 (22.9) |
| Total | 114 (100) | 48 (100) |
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