Table 1 Demographic characteristics of patients with relation to bacterial ST.

From: Virulence factors, antibiotic susceptibility and sequence type distribution of hospital-associated Clostridioides difficile isolates in Israel, 2020–2022

Characteristic

STs

p*

ST104 (N = 13)

ST11 (N = 12)

ST2 (N = 20)

ST3 (N = 8)

ST42 (N = 26)

Inconclusive (N = 20)

Other (N = 89)

Total (N = 188)

Age (years)

0.362

 Mean

70.15

78.92

70.55

72.38

69.04

77.4

69.3

71.06

 

 SD

11.92

7.4

19.98

16.12

19.24

16.15

17.7

17.22

 

Gender, n (%)

0.371

 Female

4 (30.8)

4 (33.3)

12 (60)

5 (62.5)

9 (34.6)

9 (45)

45 (50.6)

88 (46.8)

 

 Male

9 (69.2)

8 (66.7)

8 (40)

3 (37.5)

17(65.4)

11 (55)

44 (49.4)

100 (53.2)

 

Region, n (%)

0.685

 North

6 (46.2)

1 (8.3)

6 (30)

1 (12.5)

5 (19.2)

5 (25)

24 (27)

48 (25)

 

 Center

3 (23.1)

6 (50)

8 (40)

4 (50)

10 (38)

11 (55)

36 (40.4)

78 (41.5)

 

 South

4 (30.8)

5 (41.7)

6 (30)

3 (37.5)

11(42.3)

4 (20)

29 (32.6)

62 (33)

 

30 day-Mortality, n (%)

0.066

 Survival

11 (84.6)

6 (50)

16 (80)

7 (87.5)

25 (96.2)

15 (75)

67 (75.3)

147 (78.2)

 

 Death

2 (15.4)

6 (50)

4 (20)

1 (12.5)

1 (3.8)

5 (25)

22 (24.7)

41 (21.8)

 
  1. *Fisher exact or Chi-square test were performed. Statistical significance was determined with a p Value less than 0.05.
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