Research Article
Elevated Serum Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Is Associated with Septic Encephalopathy in Adult Community-Onset Severe Sepsis Patients
Table 2
Sources of infection in septic encephalopathy (SE) and non-SE groups.
| Sources of infection | SE group
| Non-SE group
| value |
| Respiratory tract infection | 8 (36.4) | 19 (40.4) | 0.955 | Urinary tract infection | 4 (18.2) | 9 (19.1) | | Intra-abdominal infection | 4 (18.2) | 10 (21.3) | | Soft tissue infection | 5 (22.7) | 7 (14.9) | | Unknown origin | 1 (4.5) | 2 (4.3) | |
| Concurrent bacteremia episode | 13 (56.5) | 21 (44.7) | 0.192 |
| Causative pathogens | | | 0.56 | Gram-negative | | | | Escherichia coli | 5 (21.7) | 6 (12.8) | | Klebsiellapneumoniae | 2 (8.7) | 8 (17.0) | | Proteus mirabilis | 1 (4.3) | 1 (2.1) | | Burkholderiapseudomallei | 1 (4.3) | 0 (0) | | Salmonella enteritidis | 1 (4.3) | 0 (0) | | Gram-positive | | | | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 0 (0) | 2 (4.3) | | β-Hemolytic Streptococcus group A | 1 (4.3) | 2 (4.3) | | Staphylococcus aureus | 2 (8.7) | 2 (4.3) | |
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