TABLE 2.
Comparison of clinical presentation by region
| Clinical presentation | No./total (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia (8, 12, 622) | Malaysia (87, 88, 166–168) | Singapore (94, 95) | India (122, 130, 131) | Thailand (17, 33, 72, 79, 473, 623) | |
| Fever | —a | 119/128 (93) | 293/372 (79) | 21/32 (66) | 95/134 (71) |
| Pulmonary infection | 412/763 (54) | 225/537 (42) | 203/614 (33) | 53/226 (23) | 121/247 (49) |
| Skin/soft tissue infection | 123/761 (16) | 99/402 (25) | 65/372 (17) | 23/180 (13) | 35/247 (14) |
| Bone and joint infection | 22/597 (4) | 35/402 (9) | 2/372 (1) | 36/226 (16) | 35/247 (14) |
| Genitourinary infectionb | — | 10/360 (3) | — | 5/180 (3) | 8/134 (6) |
| Neurological infection | 22/751 (3) | 21/370 (6) | 2/372 (1) | 19/180 (11) | 2/30 (7) |
| Liver abscess | 17/597 (3) | 46/537 (9) | — | 20/180 (11) | 93/247 (38) |
| Splenic abscess | 30/597 (5) | 45/537 (8) | — | 20/226 (9) | 68/247 (28) |
| Prostate abscess | 83/408 (20) | 5/225 (2) | — | 8/226 (4) | 13/155 (8) |
| Parotid abscess | 2/794 (0) | — | 77/226 (3) | 5/134 (4) | |
| Mycotic pseudoaneurysm | 3/597 (1) | 4/67 (6) | — | — | — |
| Pericardial effusion/pericarditis | 4/540 (1) | 1/67 (1) | 1/372 (0) | 3/180 (2) | — |
| No clinical focus | 66/597 (11) | 69/392 (18) | — | 9/95 (9) | — |
| Septic shock | 174/715 (24) | 93/225 (41) | — | 32/180 (18) | 26/134 (19) |
| Bacteremia | 477/794 (60) | 391/537 (73) | 592/986 (60) | 87/226 (38) | 491/874 (56) |
| Mortality | 118/794 (15) | 212/527 (40) | 260/614 (42) | 32/180 (18) | 1,205/2,913 (41) |
a
—, no data reported.
b
Excluding prostate.