TABLE 2.

Characteristics of patients

Characteristic	All patients (n = 89)	Immunocompetent (n = 68)	Immunocompromised (n = 21)a	P (immunocompetent vs. immunocompromised)
Age, yr (median; range)	57; 0-92	61; 0-92	48; 1-87	0.095
No. male:no. female	47:42	39:29	8:13	NSb
Hospital (HUH:SMC)c		9:59	9:12	0.003
Residence
Rural:urban	17:72	15:53	2:19	NS
Mountain:plain	10:78	5:63	6:15	0.01
Type of infection (no. of patients)
Disseminated and probably disseminated	7	5	2	NS
Locally invasive and probably locally invasive	34	24	10	NS
Superficial	48	39	9	NS
Species (no. of patients)
F. oxysporum	10	7	3	NS
F. solani	8	6	2	NS
F. dimerum	4	3	1	NS
Not determined	67	52	15	NS
Site of infection (no. of patients)
Lower limb	48	40	8	0.096
Eye	12	11	1	NS
Lungs and pleural space	6	2	4	0.01
Genitourinary tract	5	3	2	NS
Blood	3	1	2	NS
Nasopharynx	3	0	3	0.002
Gastrointestinal tract and/or peritoneum	4	4	0	NS
Underlying disease (no. of patients)
Hematological/stem cell transplantation	14	0	14	<0.001
Chronic renal failure	22	17	5	NS
Dialysis (hemodialysis:peritoneal dialysis)	5:3	3:3	2:0	NS
Peripheral vascular disease	15	12	3	NS
Diabetes mellitus	27	23	4	NS
Ischemic heart disease	14	14	0	0.034
Burn	8	8	0	NS
Outcome (no. of patients)
Organ removed surgically	13	9	4	NS
Patient died during same hospitalization (/of available patients)	19 (/86)	11 (/65)	8 (/21)	0.042

^aOne patient, admitted twice 2 years apart, was regarded as having had two infections.

^bNS, not significant.

^cHUH, Hadassah University Hospital; SMC, Sheba Medical Center.