Table 4.

Infection locations and predominant microbial genera

	Total Montana Patients			Race
	Urban (RUCC ≤3)	Rural (RUCC ≥4)	p Value	White	American Indian/Alaskan Native	p Value
Body Location	n=53	n=74		n=78	n=46
Head/Neck, n (%)	2 (3.8%)	3 (4.1%)	0.9523	3 (3.8%)	2 (4.3%)	0.8909
Trunk/Torso, n (%)	30 (56.7%)	30 (40.6%)	0.1079	43 (55.1%)	14 (30.4%)	0.0132
Upper Extremities, n (%)	14 (26.4%)	10 (13.5%)	0.1093	14 (18.0%)	9 (19.6%)	0.9832
Lower Extremities, n (%)	21 (39.6%)	43 (58.1%)	0.0608	32 (41.0%)	31 (67.4%)	0.0080
Predominant Reported Microbial Genera	n=80	n=97		n=116	n=50
Streptococcus, n (%)	23 (28.8%)	29 (29.9%)	0.9993	29 (37.2%)	23 (50.0%)	0.0126
Staphylococcus, n (%)	23 (28.8%)	29 (29.9%)	0.9993	32 (41.0%)	17 (37.0%)	0.5185
Prevotella, n (%)	11 (12.5%)	10 (11.3%)	0.9968	12 (15.4%)	9 (19.6%)	0.2684
Enterococcus, n (%)	4 (5.0%)	11 (11.3%)	0.2164	6 (7.7%)	8 (17.4%)	0.0456
Pseudomonas, n (%)	5 (6.3%)	4 (4.1%)	0.7664	6 (7.7%)	3 (6.5%)	0.9985
Polymicrobial Infections, n (%)	22 (27.5%)	29 (29.9%)	0.8543	26 (33.3%)	23 (50.0%)	0.0041

Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC; characterizing counties by population size). Bolded text p values <0.05 were considered significant.