Table 2. Serotype distribution of non-typhoidal Salmonella blood and stool isolates from 299 children with non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infection.
| Stool cultures | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood cultures | Typhimurium | Enteritidis | Other NTS | No growth of Salmonella | Total |
| Typhimurium | 66* | 6‡ | 1‡ ± | 132 | 205 |
| Enteritidis | 8‡ | 21* | 3‡ † | 59 | 91 |
| Other NTS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3$ | 3 |
| Total | 74 | 27 | 4 | 194 | 299 |
The grey shaded cells represent all non-typhoidal Salmonella isolates cultured from stool in children with NTS BSI (= 105/299, 35.1%).
*Paired NTS isolates
‡Co-presence of non-identical NTS serotypes
±1 Salmonella non-typable isolate
†2 Salmonella Virchow and 1 Salmonella non-typable isolate
$1 Salmonella Aberdeen, 1 Salmonella Stanleyville and 1 Salmonella non-typable isolate. Abbreviations: BSI = bloodstream infection, NTS = non-typhoidal Salmonella.