TABLE 2.
Characteristics of patient groupsa
| Characteristic | Percent
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Immune deficient (n = 113) | Patients without known immunodeficiency (n = 124) | |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 49.0 | 47.0 |
| Female | 51.0 | 53.0 |
| Age (yr) | ||
| 0-1 | 6.0 | 8.1 |
| 1-5 | 20.3 | 27.4 |
| 6-10 | 3.5 | 7.3 |
| 11-20 | 10.6 | 11.1 |
| 21-30 | 9.7 | 6.5 |
| 31-40 | 9.7 | 13.7 |
| 41-50 | 17.4 | 7.3 |
| 51-60 | 12.3 | 8.1 |
| 61-70 | 9.7 | 6.5 |
| >70 | 0.8 | 4.0 |
| Race or ethnicity | ||
| Hispanic | 13.4 | 16.9 |
| Caucasian | 76.9 | 67.7 |
| African American | 3.5 | 8.1 |
| Asian | 3.5 | 4.9 |
| Other | 0.9 | 2.4 |
a
The median age of the immune-deficient group was 31.5 years, and that of patients without a known immunodeficiency was 15 years.