Volume 27, Number 8—August 2021
Research
Spatial, Ecologic, and Clinical Epidemiology of Community-Onset, Ceftriaxone-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Vanessa Sardá
, William E. Trick, Huiyuan Zhang, and David N. Schwartz
, William E. Trick, Huiyuan Zhang, and David N. Schwartz
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients from whom selected Enterobacteriaceae isolates were collected, Cook County Health healthcare system, Illinois, USA, 2016–2018
| Characteristic | No. isolates (%) |
|---|---|
| Total no. isolates |
10,891 (100) |
| Sex | |
| F | 7,853 (72.1) |
| M |
3,038 (27.9) |
| Age group, y | |
| 18–34 | 2,011 (18.6) |
| 35–51 | 3,109 (28.5) |
| 52–68 | 4,092 (37.5) |
| 69–85 | 1,471 (13.5) |
| >85 |
208 (1.9) |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| Non-Hispanic White | 997 (9.2) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 4,394 (40.4) |
| Hispanic | 4,898 (44.9) |
| Other |
602 (5.5) |
| Encounter type | |
| Outpatient | 5,889 (54.1) |
| Emergency department | 2,890 (26.5) |
| Inpatient |
2,112 (19.4) |
| Organism | |
| Escherichia coli | 7,977 (73.2) |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 1,367 (12.6) |
| Proteus mirabilis | 811 (7.5) |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 376 (3.4) |
| Klebsiella oxytoca | 197 (1.8) |
| Enterobacter aerogenes |
163 (1.5) |
| Specimen type | |
| Urine | 9,315 (85.5) |
| Wound | 981 (9.0) |
| Blood | 384 (3.6) |
| Other |
211 (1.9) |
| Ceftriaxone susceptibility | |
| Susceptible | 9,856 (90.5) |
| Resistant | 1,035 (9.5) |
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