TABLE 2.

Clinical characteristics of the four patients infected with wcaJ-interrupted isolates

Parameter	Patient 1 (C400)	Patient 2 (C1356)	Patient 3 (C2768)	Patient 4 (C4599)
Age (yr)	52	42	59	62
Gender	Female	Male	Male	Male
City	Beijing	Beijing	Guangdong	Kunming
Type of specimen	Sputum	Sputum	Sputum	Sputum
Ward	Internal medicine	Internal medicine	Internal medicine, ICUa	Rehabilitation department
Underlying disease(s)	Hypertension	Cerebral hemorrhage, diabetes, hypertension, hemiplegia	Hypertension, coronary heart disease	Hypertension, heart disease, nervous system disease, hemiplegia
Infection type(s)	Pneumonia	Pneumonia	Pulmonary infection, sepsis, fungal infection	Pulmonary infection
Prior antibiotic usage within 30 days	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Empirical antimicrobial usage	Cefoxitin, levofloxacin	Moxifloxacin, amikacin	Piperacillin/tazobactam, imipenem, teicoplanin	No
Maximum temp (°C)	Unknown	37.4	37	Unknown
WBCa (109/L)	Unknown	4.46	16.3	14.79
Therapeutic antimicrobial usage	Unknown	Unknown	Imipenem	Unknown
Outcome	Recovered	Recovered	Died	Recovered

^aICU, intensive care unit; WBC, leukocytes.