Table 1.
Characteristics of clinical MRSA strains isolated from adult and pediatric patients
| Characteristic | No. (%) of isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Adulta | Pediatricb | Total/overall | |
| Total MRSA isolates | 1,124 (87.6) | 159 (12.4) | 1,283 (100) |
| Specimen source ofc: | |||
| Wound/abscess | 488 (43.4) | 81 (55.9) | 569 (44.8) |
| Sputum | 331 (29.4) | 27 (18.6) | 358 (28.2) |
| Urine | 109 (9.7) | 4 (2.8) | 113 (8.9) |
| Blood | 104 (9.3) | 7 (4.8) | 111 (8.8) |
| Otherd | 92 (8.2) | 26 (17.9) | 118 (9.3) |
| Intensive care unit collectione | 187 (16.7) | 17 (11.8) | 204 (16.1) |
| Hospital onset | 399 (35.5) | 40 (25.2) | 439 (34.2) |
Collected for 5 months from hospitals serving adults.
Collected for 12 months from hospitals serving children.
Fourteen missing pediatric entries.
According to brief notes in the data set, “other” specimen sources included the following anatomical locations or types of specimens: 5 ear; 5 eye; 3 buttock; 2 each of finger, leg, pleural, and skin; and 1 each of gastrointestinal, sinus, perineum, spleen, and umbilical for pediatric specimen sources and 8 leg; 7 foot, knee, and medical device related; 6 groin; 5 abdominal, spinal, and stool; 4 gastric; 4 hand; 3 back, pleural, and tissue; 2 each of ankle, body fluid, buttock, ear, eye, stump, synovial fluid, and unknown; and 1 each of drainage, gallbladder, hip, humerus, ileal crest, lung, pancreatic fluid, skin, and stoma.
Nineteen missing entries (4 adult and 15 pediatric).