Table 5 Age of patients and severity of illness: comparison of clinical and biological data
From: “Does the Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) confer invasiveness properties to human isolates?”
Variables (n: number of patients) | Median agea | iqra | p-valueb |
|---|---|---|---|
Invasive infection | |||
No (n = 85) | 12.7 | 53.5 | p = 0.03 |
Yes (n = 15) | 55.6 | 61.4 | |
Bacteremia | |||
No (n = 88) | 15.5 | 53.6 | p = 0.08 |
Yes (n = 12) | 43.1 | 64.6 | |
Sepsis | |||
No (n = 85) | 12.7 | 48.8 | p = 0.01 |
Yes (n = 15) | 57.1 | 46.1 | |
Fever or hypothermia | |||
No (n = 37) | 29 | 58 | p = 0.24 |
Yes (n = 58) | 9.1 | 51.7 | |
Inflammatory response | |||
No (n = 3) | 2.6 | 1.7 | p = 0.04 |
Yes (n = 82) | 24.3 | 56.6 | |