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. 2019 May 14;19:95. doi: 10.1186/s12866-019-1465-z

Table 1.

Characteristics of patients for samples

Patient characteristics Total Dysfunctional agr (N = 10) Functional agr (N = 159) P-value
Male sex, N (%) 162 (60.22) 5 (50.00) 157 (60.62) 0.5253
Age (months), median (IQRa) 11.9 (1.27–55.14) 33.27 (13.15–108.38) 11.33 (1.17–54.90) 0.0797
Age distribution 0.1581
  ≤ 28 days 59 (21.93) 0 59 (22.78)
 29 days–3 years 137 (50.93) 7 (70.00) 130 (50.19)
 4–6 years 28 (10.41) 0 28 (10.81)
 7–15 years 45 (16.73) 3 (30.00) 42 (16.22)
Origin, N (%) 0.0102
 CA 135 (50.19) 1 (10.00) 134 (51.74)
 HA 134 (49.81) 9 (90.00) 125 (48.26)
Disease 0.2900
 Invasive infectionb, N (%) 80 (29.74) 1 (10.00) 9 (90.00)
 Non-invasive infectionc, N(%) 189 (70.26) 79 (30.50) 180 (69.50)
Vancomycin treatment, N (%) 66 (24.54) 2 (20.00) 64 (24.71) 1.0000
Linezolid treatment, N (%) 45 (16.73) 2 (20.00) 43 (16.60) 0.6758
Hospitalization-Median (IQR) 15 (10–24) 21 (10.25–30.25) 14 (10–23) 0.4000

aIQR interquartile range

bSSTI Including skin and soft tissue infection, BSI bloodstream infection, CNSI central nervous system infection, IE infective endocarditis, BJI bone and joint infection, SP severe pneumonia, AI intra-abdominal infection. Details were as follows: SSTI (1 case), AI (1 case), CNSI (1 case), BJI (3 cases), SP (11 cases), BSI (11 cases), BSI + SSTI (16 cases), BSI + AI (1 case), BSI + IE (4), BSI + BJI (6 cases), BSI + CNSI (2 cases), BSI + SP (5 cases), BJI + SSTI (1 case), SP + SSTI (1 case), SP + BJI (1 case), BSI + SSTI+CNSI (1 case), BSI + CNSI+IE (1 case), BSI + SP + CNSI (1 case), BSI + SP + SSTI (3 cases), BSI + BJI + SSTI (7 cases), BSI + BJI + SSTI+CNSI (1 cases), BSI + SP + SSTI+CNSI (1 case)

cIncluding SSTI (83 cases), pneumonia (103 cases), pneumonia+SSTI (2 cases), urinary system infection (1 case)