Volume 6, Number 6—December 2000
Dispatch
Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae: An Emerging Pathogen in England and Wales?
Table 2
English and Welsh patients with sore throats whose throat swabs yielded nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, 1995 and 1996
Age |
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Clinical Setting | <15 | 15-24 | 25-34 | 35+ | All ages | |||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
General practice | 20 | 13 | 103 | 68 | 24 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 151 | 100 |
Outpatients | 1 | 4 | 15 | 58 | 7 | 31 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 100 |
GUM clinica | 0 | 0 | 6 | 50 | 4 | 33 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 100 |
Inpatients | 4 | 29 | 8 | 57 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 100 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 4 | 57 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 100 |
Not recorded | 5 | 17 | 14 | 47 | 8 | 30 | 2 | 7 | 29 | 100 |
All settings | 30 | 13 | 148 | 62 | 49 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 238 | 100 |
aGUM = genitourinary medicine.