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Volume 29, Number 3—March 2023
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Bartonella spp. Infections Identified by Molecular Methods, United States

David W. McCormick, Sara L. Rassoulian-Barrett, Daniel R. Hoogestraat, Stephen J. Salipante, Dhruba SenGupta, Elizabeth A. Dietrich, Brad T. Cookson, Grace E. Marx1Comments to Author , and Joshua A. Lieberman1
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (D.W. McCormick, E.A. Dietrich, G.E. Marx); University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (S.L. Rassoulian-Barrett, D.R. Hoogestraat, S.J. Salipante, D. SenGupta, B.T. Cookson, J.A. Lieberman)

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Table 2

Categorical age and sex of infected persons grouped by specimen type in study of Bartonella spp. infections identified by molecular methods, United States

Variable
 No. (%) specimens
 p value†
Cardiac, n = 140
 Lymph node, n = 122
 Other,* n = 158
Age, y <0.0001
<18, n = 134 5 (4) 52 (39) 77 (57)
18–65, n = 236 106 (45) 66 (27) 64 (27)
≥65, n = 45
 27 (60)
 3 (7)
 15 (33)
Sex <0.0001
M, n = 245) 107 (44) 61 (25) 77 (31)
F, n = 152) 24 (16) 57 (38) 71 (47)

*Abscess (n = 38), tissue (n = 32), neck/face/arm (n = 25), liver (n = 15), leg/hip (n = 14), breast/chest wall (n = 6), skin (n = 5), lung (n = 4), aorta (n = 2), vascular (n = 2), body fluid NOS (n = 4), bone (n = 4), spleen (n = 4), synovial fluid (n = 2), and dura mater (n = 1). †By χ2 test.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

David W. McCormick, MD, MPH; Sara L. Rassoulian-Barrett, MS; Daniel R. Hoogestraat, BS, MB(ASCP); Stephen J. Salipante, MD, PhD; Dhruba SenGupta, PhD; Elizabeth A. Dietrich, PhD; Brad T. Cookson, MD, PhD; Grace E. Marx, MD, MPH; Joshua A. Lieberman, MD, PhD.

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