Table 2.
Demographic and clinical presentations of deaths and survivors
| Characteristics (%) | Deaths (N-20) |
Survivors (N-164) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Related events | |||
| Seawater or seafood contact | 4 (20) | 61 (37.2) | |
| Farm/dirty-water contact | 1 (5) | 27 (16.5) | |
| Vital signs | |||
| Body temperature > 38.5 °C | 2 (10) | 28 (17) | 0.53 |
| Heart rate ≥ 100 | 13 (65) | 81 (49.4) | 0.24 |
| Respiratory rate > 20 | 13 (65) | 87 (53) | 0.35 |
| Systolic blood pressure < 90 | 10 (50) | 20 (12.2) | 0.0002* |
| Cultures | |||
| Blood (P) Wound (P) | 12 (60) | 23 (14) | |
| Blood (P) Wound (N) | 1 (5) | 17 (10.4) | |
| Blood (N) Wound (P) | 3 (15) | 74 (45.1) | |
| Blood (N) Wound (N) | 4 (20) | 50 (30.5) | |
| Presence of bacteremia | 13 (65) | 40 (24.4) | 0.0004* |
| Vibrio vulnificus | 5 (38.5) | 22 (55) | |
| Aeromonas spp. | 4 (30.7) | 5 (12.5) | |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 1 (7.7) | 1 (2.5) | |
| E. coli | 0 | 1 (2.5) | |
| MRSA | 1 (7.7) | 1 (2.5) | |
| MSSA | 0 | 1 (2.5) | |
| CONS | 0 | 2 (5) | |
| β-hemolytic streptococcus | 1 (7.7) | 6 (15) | |
| Viridans streptococci | 0 | 1 (2.5) | |
| Polymicrobial | 1 (7.7) | 0 |
Blood (P), culture-positive blood sample; Blood (N), culture-negative blood sample; Wound (P), culture-positive surgical wound sample; Wound (N), culture-negative surgical wound sample; CONS, Coagulase negative Staphylococcus
*Mean p < 0.05 and the difference was significant