Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Dispatch
Sentinel Listeriosis Surveillance in Selected Hospitals, China, 2013–2017
Weiwei Li, Li Bai, Xiaochen Ma, Xiuli Zhang, Xinpeng Li, Xiaorong Yang, Jennifer Y. Huang, Séamus Fanning, and Yunchang Guo
Table 1
Demographic data of 211 listeriosis case-patients reported by 64 sentinel hospitals, by risk group, China, 2013–2017*
| Characteristic | Pregnancy-associated, no. (%) |
Not pregnancy-associated, no. (%) |
Total, no. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total |
138 (65.4) |
73 (34.6) |
211 (100.0) |
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| Sex | ||||||
| F | 138 (100.0) | 36 (49.3) | 174 (82.5) | |||
| M |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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| Specimen source | ||||||
| Blood | 86 (62.3) | 57 (78.1) | 143 (67.8) | |||
| CSF | 8 (5.8) | 11 (15.1) | 19 (9.0) | |||
| Other† |
NA |
5 (6.9) |
5 (2.4) |
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| Product of conception |
44 (31.9) |
NA |
44 (20.9) |
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| Death or fetal loss | 43 (31.2) |
12 (16.4) |
55 (26.1) |
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*CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; NA, nonapplicable.
†Including pleural effusion, cystic liquid, bone marrow, and feces.
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