Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with atopic dermatitis and the control group

Parameter	Patients	Control	P-value
Total no.:	100	50	0.0001b
Children	38	2
Adults	62	48
Age [years]	22.3 ±15.6	35.1 ±13.4	0.0001a
Gender (%):
Female	45	50
Male	55	50
Presence of SA (%):			0.0001b
On the skin	75	4
Anterior nares	73	14
Presence of MRSA (%):	11	0
CA-MRSA	54.5	0
HA-MRSA	45.5	0

^aU Mann-Whitney test

^bχ² test.