Volume 11, Number 6—June 2005
Dispatch
Hospitalization and Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella Outbreaks, 1984–2002
Table
Hospitalization and death rates among nontyphoidal Salmonella outbreaks by resistance pattern, 1984–2002*
Resistance pattern | Outbreaks |
Patients |
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n (median % [range]) | p value | No./total (%) | p value | |
Hospitalization | ||||
Pansusceptible | 22 (9.7 [0–37.5]) | Referent | 164/2,194 (7.5) | Referent |
Resistant >1 | 10 (26.2 [9.3–49.3]) | <0.01 | 2,913/13,286 (21.9) | <0.01 |
R-type AC/KSSuT | 7 (26.1 [9.3–48.9]) | 0.02 | 2,827/12,806 (22.1) | <0.01 |
Clinically important agent | 9 (26.1 [9.3–48.9]) | 0.04 | 2,877/13,213 (21.8) | <0.01 |
Death | ||||
Pansusceptible | 16 (0 [0–0.6]) | Referent | 2/3,283 (0.06) | Referent |
Resistant >1 | 8 (0.1 [0–1.4]) | 0.05 | 23/18,644 (0.1) | 0.57 |
R-type AC/KSSuT | 5 (0 [0–0.7]) | 0.21 | 20/17,150 (0.1) | 0.56 |
Clinically important agent | 6 (0 [0–0.7]) | 0.69 | 20/17,865 (0.1) | 0.80 |
*AC/KSSut, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline.