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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Food Prot. 2017 Apr;80(4):654–660. doi: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-16-364

Table 1. Patient demographics and isolate type and source, Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak, United States, 2014.

Variable n %
Sex (n = 146)
 Female 63 43
 Male 75 51
 Unknown 8 5
Age (yr) (n = 146)
 <1–10 45 31
 11–20 16 11
 21–40 31 21
 41–60 25 17
 61–80 17 12
 81–100 4 3
 Unknown 8 5
Hospitalized (n = 89) 42 47
Died (n = 93) 0 0
Isolate type (n = 174)
 Human 146 84
 Food or animal 28 16
Isolate source
 Human (n = 146)
  Blood 25 17
  Stool 110 75
  Urine 10 7
  Unknown 1 <1
 Food or animal (n = 28)
  Beef 1 4
  Chicken 26 93
  Cecum (chicken) 1 4
No. of states involved
 Human isolates 24
 Food isolates 4