TABLE 3.
Comparison of melioidosis risk factors by region
| Risk factor | 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) |
|
| Sex (male) | 555/794 (70) | 425/549 (77) | 821/986 (83) | 152/226 (67) | 1722/2887 (60) |
| ATSI | 414/794 (52) | —a | — | — | — |
| Diabetes | 339/779 (44) | 360/537 (67) | 562/986 (57) | 131/226 (58) | 1275/2464 (52) |
| Renal disease | 99/777 (13) | 48/547 (9) | 115/986 (12) | 37/180 (21) | 83/874 (9) |
| Lung disease | 181/766 (24) | 8/280 (3) | 61/986 (6) | — | 1/30 (3) |
| Chronic heart disease | 39/540 (7) | — | 9/372 (2) | — | |
| Cancer | 49/765 (6) | 8/225 (4) | 62/986 (6) | — | 23/368 (6) |
| Immunosuppression | 55/765 (7) | 24/370 (6) | — | 12/95 (13) | 25/791 (3) |
| HIV | — | 8/312 (3) | — | — | 2/83 (2) |
| Alcohol excess | 317/754 (42) | 3/202 (1) | — | 22/226 (10) | 25/204 (12) |
| Thalassemia | — | 1/67 (1) | — | — | 117/874 (13) |
| Occupational exposure | 96/540 (18) | 73/317 (23) | — | — | 262/368 (71) |
| Kava | 27/540 (5) | — | — | — | — |
| Smoking | — | — | 245/372 (66) | — | 92/204 (45) |
a
—, no data reported.