. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Microbes Infect. 2020 Aug 3;22(10):540–549. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2020.07.006

Table 1.

Characteristics of the Study Population (n=30).

	Non-Carriers	Persistent Carriers
	15 (50%)	15 (50%)	p-value
Age (years)
<6	6 (40%)	7 (47%)	1.000
≥6	9 (60%)	8 (53%)
Sex
Female	7 (47%)	5 (33%)	0.710^*
Male	8 (53%)	10 (67%)
Race/Ethnicity
Caucasian, non-Hispanic	0 (0%)	2 (13%)	0.636 ^*
Latino/Hispanic	12 (80%)	9 (60%)
African American	2 (13%)	3 (20%)
Other	1 (7%)	1 (7%)
History of Culture-Positive Staphylococcal Infection
No 15 (100%)		10 (67%)	0.042 ^*^‡
Yes	0 (0%)	5^§ (33%)
Number of Nasal Swabs Completed
3	10 (67%)	13 (87%)	0.390
4	5 (33%)	2 (13%)

Fisher’s exact p-value.

^‡

Statistically significant at p<0.05.

^§

Four patients had MRSA infections; 3 of those patients were MRSA persistent carriers.