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. 2022 Mar 1;10(2):e02290-21. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02290-21

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)
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.