Table 1. Characteristics of the 45 patients with bacteremia caused Elizabethkingia-like organisms.
Characteristics | Number of patients (%) |
P-valuec | |
---|---|---|---|
Elizabethkingiabacteremia (n = 21) | Non-Elizabethkingiabacteremia (n = 24) | ||
Sex (male:female) | 11:10 | 13:11 | 0.90 |
Underlying diseases | 19 (90.5) | 24 (100) | 0.12 |
Hospital- vs community-acquireda | 15:4 | 7:1 | 0.60 |
Diagnosisb | |||
Biliary tract infection | 2 (9.5) | 0 (0) | 0.12 |
Catheter-related bacteremia | 5 (23.8) | 1 (4.2) | 0.05 |
Community-acquired pneumonia | 3 (14.3) | 0 (0) | 0.06 |
Neonatal meningitis | 3 (14.3) | 0 (0) | 0.06 |
Neutropenic fever | 1 (4.8) | 2 (8.3) | 0.63 |
Nosocomial bacteremia | 3 (14.3) | 5 (20.8) | 0.57 |
Nosocomial pneumonia | 2 (9.5) | 0 (0) | 0.12 |
Primary bacteremia | 0 (0) | 1 (4.2) | 0.34 |
Pseudobacteremia | 2 (9.5) | 16 (76.1) | 0.00009 |
>1 positive blood cultures | 3 (14.3) | 1 (4.2) | 0.23 |
Polymicrobial bacteremia | 0 (0) | 10 (41.7) | 0.0008 |
Positive cultures from other sites | 8 (38.1) | 1 (4.2) | 0.005 |
Complications | 7 (33.3) | 1 (4.2) | 0.01 |
Attributable mortality | 4 (19.0) | 0 (0) | 0.025 |
aexcluding pseudobacteremia.
bThe percentages add up to more than 100% because some patients have more than one diagnosis.
cby Chi-square test.