Table 3.

Characteristics of patients with Staphylococcal aureus bacteremia

Characteristics	ESRD	Population controls
Origin of infection
Community acquired	60 (5.08%)	193 (33.6%)
Hospital associated	794 (67.2%)	331 (57.7%)
Unknown	328 (27.8%)	50 (8.7%)
Methicillin category
Methicillin sensitive	815 (99.3%)	272 (99.3%)
Methicillin resistant	6 (0.7%)	2 (0.7%)
Complications
None/not registered	717 (93.1%)	224 (84.5%)
Endocarditis	24 (3.1%)	15 (5.7%)
Osteomyelitis	23 (3.0%)	24 (9.1%)
Meningitis*	6 (0.8%)	2 (0.6%)

NOTE. No. of individuals (%). ESRD: end-stage renal disease *from 1990.