Table 2.

Granuloma formation and characteristics of infected patients.

	Infected patients forming granulomas	Infected patients not forming granulomas	p
Number of patients	11/23 (48%)	12/23 (52%)	0.77
Patients (female/male)	9/2	4/7	1
Age (years)
mean (min-max)	82.9 [65–100]	80.7 [65–93]	0.59
Medical history, n
Diabetes Mellitus	3/11	7/12	0.14
Undernutrition (BMI <21)	0/11	4/12	0.02*
Chronic lung disease	0/11	0/12	1
Cardiac insufficiency	3/11	2/12	0.56
Dementia	2/11	4/12	0.43
Leukocytes (Giga/L)
mean [min-max]	12 [5.9–20]	9.2 [4.4–12]	0.5
Neutrophils (Giga/L)
mean [min-max]	9.8 [4.5–17]	7.0 [3–10]	0.7
Monocytes (Giga/L)
mean [min-max]	0.9 [0.33–1.6]	0.6 [0.21–1.3]	0.1
Lymphocytes (Giga/L)
mean [min-max]	1.3 [0.44–3.6]	1.4 [0.8–2.3]	0.8
C-reactive protein (mg/L)
mean [min-max]	195.3 [36.2–449.8]	143.1 [10–337]	0.25
Albumin (g/L)
mean [min-max]	29.5 [19–41.8]	27.9 [18–34.6]	0.57

p-values for comparisons between infected patients that formed granulomas and infected patients that did not form granulomas.

^*p < 0.05.