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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization patterns in nursing home residents.
| No. of sites with MRSA carriage | No. of residents | No. (%) of residents with a device in place | Site |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nares | Oropharynx | Groin | Perianal site | Device | Wound | |||
| 0 | 127 | 50 (39) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 39 | 22 (56) | 15 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | 18 | 9 (50) | 14 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 13 | 8 (62) | 11 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | 7 | 7 (100) | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 8 | 8 (100) | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 (100) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
