Table 1.
Characteristics of the identified isolates from the specimens of bone and skin and soft tissues of patients with war-related injuries (N = 348)
| Characteristic |
S. aureus (N = 171) n (%)* |
Enterobacterales (N = 99) n (%)* |
P. aeruginosa (N = 46) n (%)* |
Other bacteria† (N = 32) n (%)* |
p-value‡ | Total (N = 348) n (%)§ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic | ||||||
| Age** [IQR], y | 33 [25–43] | 33 [25–48] | 35 [26.5–45.3] | 41.5 [33.3–50.3] | 0.049 | 34.5 [26–44] |
| Sex | 0.702 | |||||
| Male | 144 (50.5) | 80 (28.1) | 36 (12.6) | 25 (8.8) | 285 (81.9) | |
| Female | 27 (42.9) | 19 (30.2) | 10 (15.9) | 7 (11.1) | 63 (18.1) | |
| Nationality | 0.400 | |||||
| Syria | 138 (51.1) | 71 (26.3) | 37 (13.7) | 24 (8.9) | 270 (77.6) | |
| Iraq | 13 (48.1) | 9 (33.3) | 4 (14.8) | 1 (3.7) | 27 (7.8) | |
| Lebanon | 11 (50.0) | 6 (27.3) | 3 (13.6) | 2 (9.1) | 22 (6.3) | |
| Palestine | 5 (27.8) | 7 (38.9) | 2 (11.1) | 4 (22.2) | 18 (5.2) | |
| Yemen | 4 (36.4) | 6 (54.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (9.1) | 11 (3.2) | |
| Specimen | ||||||
| Site | 0.844 | |||||
| SST | 101 (51.0) | 55 (27.8) | 24 (12.1) | 18 (9.1) | 198 (56.9) | |
| Bone | 70 (46.7) | 44 (29.3) | 22 (14.7) | 14 (9.3) | 150 (43.1) | |
| Year of collection | 0.498 | |||||
| 2016 | 36 (41.9) | 32 (37.2) | 9 (10.5) | 9 (10.5) | 86 (24.7) | |
| 2017 | 51 (52.0) | 25 (25.5) | 16 (16.3) | 6 (6.1) | 98 (28.2) | |
| 2018 | 40 (49.4) | 24 (29.6) | 9 (11.1) | 8 (9.9) | 81 (23.3) | |
| 2019 | 44 (53.0) | 18 (21.7) | 12 (14.5) | 9 (10.8) | 83 (23.8) | |
IQR Interquartile range, SST skin and soft tissue, y years
*The percentages are calculated based on the number of isolates reported under ‘Total’ per row
**Continuous variables are presented as medians. The Kruskal–Wallis test was used for the relevant statistical analysis
†Other bacteria include coagulase-negative staphylococci (n = 7), Acinetobacter baumannii (n = 7), Enterococcus species (n = 11), and Streptococcus group A (n = 7)
‡The Chi-square test or the Fisher’s exact test (when the expected cell counts are < 5) were used for the relevant statistical analysis, except for the variable age
§The percentages are calculated based on the total N = 348