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Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021
Research

Changing Patterns of Disease Severity in Blastomyces dermatitidis Infection, Quebec, Canada

Alex CarignanComments to Author , Chiheb Boudhrioua, Sandrine Moreira, Andrée Ann Pelletier, Kevin Dufour, Jacques Pépin, Catherine Allard, Dominique Marcoux, and Philippe J. Dufresne
Author affiliations: Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (A. Carignan, A.A. Pelletier, K. Dufour, J. Pépin, C. Allard, D. Marcoux); Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada (C. Boudhrioua, S. Moreira, P.J. Dufresne)

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Table 3

Characteristics of patients according to Blastomyces genotype groups, Quebec, Canada*

Characteristic
Genotype I, n = 3
Genotype II, n = 25
Genotype III, n = 31
Genotype IV, n = 49
p value
Quebec administrative region
Bas-St-Laurent 0 0 0 0 (10)
Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean 0 0 0 1 (2)
Capitale-Nationale 0 0 0 13 (27)
Mauricie 0 0 1 (3) 5 (10)
Estrie 1 (33) 0 25 (81) 4 (8)
Montréal 1 (33) 3 (12) 3 (10) 3 (6)
Outaouais 1 (33) 10 (40) 0 0
Chaudière-Appalaches 0 0 1 (3) 5 (10)
Laval 0 1 (4) 0 0
Lanaudière 0 7 (28) 0 0
Laurentides 0 1 (4) 0 0
Montérégie 0 3 (12) 1 (3) 4 (8)
Centre-du-Québec
0
0
0
9 (18)
<0.001†
Severe case
No 3 (100) 20 (80) 27 (87) 43 (86)
Yes
0
5 (20)
4 (13)
7 (14)
0.8†
90-day all-cause mortality
No 3 (100) 19 (76) 26 (84) 41 (82)
Yes 0 6 (24) 5 (16) 9 (18) 0.9†

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. †By Fisher exact test.

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