Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
Research
Increasing Incidence of Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease in Adults, Utah, USA
Matthew P. Rubach
, Jeffrey M. Bender, Susan Mottice, Kimberly Hanson, Hsin Yi Cindy Weng, Kent Korgenski, Judy A. Daly, and Andrew T. Pavia
, Jeffrey M. Bender, Susan Mottice, Kimberly Hanson, Hsin Yi Cindy Weng, Kent Korgenski, Judy A. Daly, and Andrew T. Pavia
Table
Characteristics, by serotype, of 121 cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae in adult patients, Utah, USA, 1998–2008
| Characteristic | No. (%) samples |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type a, n = 15 | Type b, n = 9 | Type c, n = 1 | Type d, n = 3 | Type e, n = 5 | Type f, n = 25 | Not typeable, n = 43 | Not typed, n = 20 | Total | |
| Patient age, y | |||||||||
| 18–34 | 3 (20.0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (4.0) | 9 (20.9) | 3 (15.0) | 17 (14.0) |
| 35–49 | 3 (20.0) | 3 (33.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (4.0) | 5 (11.6) | 1 (5.0) | 13 (10.7) |
| 50–64 | 4 (26.7) | 2 (22.2) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 (24.0) | 12 (27.9) | 3 (15.0) | 29 (23.9) |
| >65 |
5 (33.3) |
4 (44.4) |
0 |
2 |
4 |
17 (68.0) |
17 (39.5) |
13 (65.0) |
62 (51.2) |
| Patient sex, F |
8 (53.3) |
4 (44.4) |
1 |
0 |
3 |
17 (68.0) |
21 (48.8) |
10 (50.0) |
64 (52.8) |
| Sample source | |||||||||
| Cerebrospinal fluid | 1 (6.7) | 4 (44.4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 (16.0) | 5 (11.6) | 0 | 15 (12.3) |
| Blood | 14 (93.3) | 5 (55.6) | 0 | 3 | 5 | 21 (84.0) | 35 (81.3) | 18 (90.0) | 101 (83.5) |
| Other |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 (6.9) |
2 (10.0) |
5 (4.1) |
| Patient death | 4 (26.7) | 2 (22.2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 (16.0) | 10 (23.2) | 6 (30.0) | 27 (22.3) |
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