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Volume 19, Number 10—October 2013
Research

Antibody Responses against Pneumocystis jirovecii in Health Care Workers Over Time

Serena FongComments to Author , Kieran R. Daly, Renuka Tipirneni, Leah G. Jarlsberg, Kpandja Djawe, Judy V. Koch, Alexandra Swartzman, Brenna Roth, Peter D. Walzer, and Laurence Huang
Author affiliations: San Francisco General Hospital/University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (S. Fong, R. Tipirneni, L.G. Jarlsberg, A. Swartzman, B. Roth, L. Huang); Veterans Affairs Medical Center/University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (K.R. Daly, K. Djawe, J.V. Koch, P.D. Walzer)

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Table 1

Characteristics of San Francisco General Hospital staff in a study of antibody responses to Pneumocystis jirovecii, San Francisco, California, USA, 2007–2009*

Characteristic Total no. (%), N = 115 Clinical, no. (%), n = 99 Nonclinical, no. (%), n = 16 p value
Demographic
Mean age ± SD, y 39.5 ± 12.1 39.0 ± 12.4 42.8 ± 9.7 0.25
Sex
F 66 (57.4) 56 (56.6) 10 (62.5) Ref
M 49 (42.6) 43 (43.4) 6 (37.5) 0.66
Race:
White/Caucasian 70 (60.9) 59 (59.6) 11 (68.8) Ref
Asian 30 (26.1) 28 (28.3) 2 (12.5) 0.14
Black/African American 3 (2.6) 2 (2.0) 1 (6.3) 0.32
Multiple/other 12 (10.4) 10 (10.1) 2 (12.5) 0.95
Ethnicity
Hispanic/Latino 17 (14.8) 13 (13.1) 4 (25.0) 0.25
Health condition
Ever smoked 39 (33.9) 31 (31.3) 8 (50.0) 0.14
Lung condition 19 (16.5) 14 (14.1) 5 (31.3) 0.14
Immune condition 8 (7.0) 4 (4.0) 4 (25.0) 0.01
Professional
Department/Division:
HIV/AIDS 52 (45.2) 44 (44.4) 8 (50.0) Ref
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 30 (26.1) 27 (27.3) 3 (18.8) 0.49
Medicine 27 (23.5) 23 (23.2) 4 (25.0) 0.90
Other 6 (5.2) 5 (5.1) 1 (6.3) 0.81
Ever exposed to PCP patient 79 (68.7) 77 (77.8) 2 (12.5) <0.001

*Ref., reference category; PCP, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia.

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