Table 2. Prevalence of IDU-related diagnoses among patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, by IDU status, Tennessee, USA, 2015–2017*.
Diagnosis | IDU, no. (%), n = 1,839 | Non-IDU, no. (%), n = 5,807 | p value | Overall, no. (%), n = 7,646 |
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Endocarditis | 743 (40.4) | 626 (10.8) | <0.001 | 1,369 (17.9) |
Hepatitis C | 932 (50.7) | 377 (6.5) | <0.001 | 1,309 (17.1) |
Osteomyelitis/septic arthritis | 516 (28.1) | 1,340 (23.1) | <0.001 | 1,856 (24.3) |
Skin/soft tissue infection | 863 (46.9) | 2,227 (38.4) | <0.001 | 3,090 (40.4) |
*IDU, injection drug use.