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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients infected without and with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-Enterobacterales

From: Temporal trends, risk factors and outcomes of infections due to extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Enterobacterales in Swiss solid organ transplant recipients between 2012 and 2018

 

Cases (N = 51)

Controls (N = 51)

Male, N (%)

28 (54.9%)

17 (33.3%)

Age at time of infection, mean (SD)

54.8 (12)

53.4 (14.8)

Transplanted organ (matched variable)

 Kidney

33 (64.7%)

33 (64.7%)

 Kidney-pancreas

4 (7.8%)

4 (7.8%)

 Liver (incl kidney-liver)

9 (17.6%)

9 (17.6%)

 Heart

5 (9.8%)

5 (9.8%)

BMI at transplantation, mean (SD)

25.5 (4.1)

25.1 (4.2)

Caucasian ethnicity, N (%)

46 (90.2%)

49 (96.1%)

Comorbidities, N (%)

 Cardiopulmonary disease

27 (52.9%)

25 (49%)

 Metabolic/endocrine disease

35 (68.6%)

43 (84.3%)

 Cancer

8 (15.7%)

6 (11.8%)

 Other

32 (62.7%)

31 (60.8%)

Previously documented ESBL colonizationa

19 (37%)

0 (0%)

Antibioticsb (30 days before infection), N (%)

24 (47.1%)

14 (27.5%)

 BL/BLI

10 (37%)

6 (28.6%)

 Carbapenem

6 (22.2%)

3 (14.3%)

 Quinolone

10 (37%)

3 (14.3%)

 Cephalosporine

7 (25.9%)

0 (0%)

 Sulfamethoxazol/trimethoprim

7 (25.9%)

4 (19%)

Hospital-onset, N (%)

20 (39.2%)

19 (37.3)

Day of onset (median, IQR)

20 (9.5–60)

8 (6–42)

Days from transplantation to infection, median (IQR)

67 (24–228)

71 (33–227)

Year of 1st infection, N (%)

 2012

6 (11.8%)

8 (15.7%)

 2013

9 (17.6%)

13 (25.5%)

 2014

14 (27.5%)

12 (23.5%)

 2015

16 (31.4%)

10 (19.6%)

 2016

6 (11.8%)

8 (15.7%)

Infection site, N (%)

 Urinary tract

38 (74.5%)

39 (76.5%)

 With bacteremia

5 (13.2%)

10 (25.6%)

 Abdominal/liver

2 (3.9%)

3 (5.9%)

 Respiratory tract

3 (5.9%)

5 (9.8%)

 Surgical site

3 (5.9%)

4 (7.8%)

 Primary bacteremia

2 (3.9%)

1 (2.0%)

 Other

3 (5.9%)

1 (2.0%)

If urinary tract infection, N (%)

 Obstruction

2/38 (5.3%)

5/39 (12.8%)

 Catheter

12/38 (31.6%)

17/39 (43.6%)

  1. ESBL extended-spectrum beta-lactamase, SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index, IQR interquartile range, BL/BLI beta-lactam/beta-lactamase-inhibitor
  2. aPreviously ESBL colonized participants were not eligible for the control group
  3. bIncluding prophylaxis