Table 1b.

Underlying risk factors for the two cohorts of the study.

	Community Cohort [n=189]		Hospital Health Care Cohort[n=116]
Co-morbidities, %
Diabetes Mellitus	5.0		6.5‡
Hypertension	4.4		6.5‡
Ulcers	0.6		0‡
Soft tissue infections	4.4		0.8‡
H/O Recent exposure to Antibiotics%	Yes	8.3	24.4‡
	No	71.7	75.6‡
H/o recent exposure/Hospitalization	Yes	1.1	3.3‡
	No	98.9	96.7‡
Presence of wounds/skin lesions	Yes	6.1	0.8‡
	No	93.9	99.2‡

^‡- NS, P>0.05, Chi Square test