Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of ST398 MSSA carriers and subjects carrying other MSSA sequence types in Dallas County Jail

Characteristic	Detainees carrying ST398 MSSA (n = 16)	Detainees carrying other MSSA backgrounds (n = 95)	P value
Gender, no. (%)
Male	7 (44)	77 (81)	0.0009
Female	9 (56)	23 (19)
Race, no. (%)
White	7 (44)	52 (55)	0.5
Black	8 (50)	41 (43)
Unknown	1 (6)	2 (2)
Ethnicity, no. (%)
Hispanic	3 (19)	24 (25)	0.8
Non-Hispanic	13 (81)	70 (74)
Unknown	0	1 (1)
Age, yrs, mean ± SD	40.6 ± 9.5	33.3 ± 10.7	0.01
Median duration of stay in jail, days (range)	50.5 (1–245)	74 (1–675)	0.3