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Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021
Dispatch

Extraintestinal Seeding of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi, Pakistan

Seema IrfanComments to Author , Mohammad Zeeshan, Salima Rattani, Joveria Farooqi, Sadia Shakoor, Rumina Hasan, and Afia Zafar
Author affiliation: Aga Khan University. Karachi, Pakistan

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Table 1

Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates from blood, feces, and urine versus other body sites, Pakistan 2013−2018

Characteristic
No. (%, 95% CI) in blood, feces, or urine No. (%, 95% CI) in other body sites Total cases p value
No. ceftriaxone sensitive
5,858 (99.1, 98.9–99.4)
51 (0.86, 0.63–1.10)
5,909
0.011
No. ceftriaxone resistant
2,878 (99.6, 99.4–99.8)
11 (0.38, 0.16–0.61)
2,889
Total
8,736 (99.3, 99.1–99.5)
62 (0.70, 0.53–0.88)
8,798
Year
Ceftriaoxne susceptibility




2013 Sensitive
662 (98.5, 97.6–99.4)
10 (1.49, 0.57–2.41)
672
0.902
Resistant
0
0
0
2014 Sensitive
701 (98.7, 97.9–99.6)
9 (1.27, 0.45–2.10)
710
0.873
Resistant
0
0
0
2015 Sensitive
881(98.9, 98.3–99.6)
9 (1.01, 0.36–1.68)
890
0.839
Resistant
0
0
0
2016 Sensitive
1,167 (99.5, 99.2–99.9)
5 (0.42, 0.05–0.80)
1,172
0.764
Resistant
21 (100)*
0
21
2017 Sensitive
1,299 (99.3, 98.9–99.8)
9 (0.69) 24–1.14)
1,308
0.057
Resistant
526 (100)*
0
526
2018† Sensitive
1,155 (99.2, 98.7–99.7)
9 (0.77, 0.27–1.28)
1,164
0.264
Resistant 2,324 (99.5, 99.3–99.8) 11 (0.47, 0.19–0.75) 2,335

*Because 100% of extensively drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi were obtained from blood, stool, or urine, there was no 95% CI.
†A total of 20 (0.57%) of 3,499 Salmonella Typhi were isolated from other body sites during 2018.

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