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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2010 Mar 5;375(9725):1557–1568. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61999-1

Table 1.

Distribution of infections caused by CA-MRSA in four observational studies.

Author (Year of Study)
1 Kaplan55 (2005) Fridkin59 (2005) Liu124 (2008) 1 Purcell58 (2005)
Patients (N) 2659 1647 2270 826
SSTI (%) 95.6 87 88 94.1
Bone, joint (%) 2.4 3 <1 <1
Respiratory (%) <1 2 4 <1
Bacteremia (%) <1 3 4 <1
Urinary (%) 0 4 2 <1
Other (%) 1 4 2 4.5
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