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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2010 Jul;31(7):694–700. doi: 10.1086/653206

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Algorithm to identify noninvasive infections due to Staphylococcus aureus on the basis of a confirmed S. aureus–positive culture result from a specimen obtained from a nonsterile body site (all cultures not classified as coming from a normally sterile body site according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Active Bacterial Core surveillance systems criteria) and at least 1 International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9-CM), code for S. aureus–related infection (ICD-9-CM code from outpatient visit or hospitalization during which culture sample was obtained or hospitalization within 72 hours of culture sampling).