TABLE 1.
Clinical characteristics of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae infected patients with bacteremia and their hospitalization wards in 12 referral hospitals in China, 2016–2018
| Clinical characteristics/wardsa | ICU (n = 55) |
Pediatrics neonatology (n = 25) |
Burn (n = 13) |
Liver surgery (n = 8) |
Gastroenterology (n = 7) |
Neurosurgery (n = 7) |
Respiratory (n = 7) |
Neurology (n = 6) |
Hematology (n = 6) |
Total (n = 147) |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Age, yrs (median, IQR) | 59 | (51–75) | **b | 45 | 37–50 | 46 | (43.5–62) | 48 | (45–63) | 55 | (40–61) | 77 | (65–85) | 68.5 | (53–77) | 62 | (34–64) | 52 | (39–68) | |
| Male sex | 37 | 67.2 | 8 | 32 | 8 | 61.5 | 4 | 50 | 7 | 100 | 5 | 71.4 | 5 | 71.4 | 6 | 100 | 4 | 66.6 | 92 | 62.5 |
| Early onset infection | 1 | 1.8 | 22 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 15.6 |
| Central nervous system infections | 7 | 12.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4.7 |
| Coronary heart disease | 1 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3.4 |
| Burns | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 84.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7.4 |
| Respiratory conditions | 3 | 5.4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 42.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4.7 |
| Cerebral infartaction and hemorrage | 8 | 14.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 71.4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 66.6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 11.5 |
| Leukemia and cancer | 1 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 37.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33.3 | 8 | 5.4 |
| Lung infections | 3 | 5.4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 57.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7.4 |
a
only wards with >6 hospitalized patients were shown.
b
**, 23 patients were younger than one day (newborns) and two patients were less than 30 days of age.