. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 30.

Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Orthop B. 2017 Nov;26(6):491–496. doi: 10.1097/BPB.0000000000000437

Table 2.

Association of pathogen and abscess formation

Pathogen	Bone abscess (n = 25) [n (%)]	Muscle abscess (n = 29) [n (%)]	Any abscess (n = 46) [n (%)]	No abscess (n = 56) [n (%)]
MRSA^*	8 (32)	13 (45)	17 (37)	10 (18)
MSSA^*	15 (60)	10 (34)	21 (46)	8 (14)
Streptococcus pyogenes	1 (4)	0 (0)	1 (2)	4 (7)
Streptococcus pneumoniae	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (2)
Salmonella montevido	1 (4)	0 (0)	1 (2)	0 (0)
Kingella kingae	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (2)
Haemophilus influenzae nonserotype B	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	4 (7)
GBS	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (2)
Viridans group Streptococcus spp.	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (2)
None	0 (0)	6 (21)	6 (13)	26 (46)

GBS, group B Streptococcus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylocccus aureus.

P (χ²) = 0.0003 for S. aureus (MRSA and MSSA) vs. all other pathogens.