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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Dec 1;169(12):1105–1111. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.2380

Table 1.

Incidence of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections for Hospitalized Infants, Number of Infections/10,000 Infants

MSSA MRSA S. aureus
Culture Type N Infections/10,000 N Infections/10,000 N Infections/10,000
<1500 g birth weight
(N=136,797)
 All sites 2208 161.4 853 62.4 3061 223.8
≥1500 g birth weight
(N=751,113)
 All sites 660 8.8 257 3.4 917 12.2

Abbreviations: MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus.