Table 1.

Demographics of 227 healthy volunteer subjectss and distribution of MRS, MR-CoNS only, MRSA only and MR-CoNS + MRSA isolates among these subjects

	MRS (n = 130) (57·2% of 227 participants)		MR-CoNS only (n = 111) (85·4% of 130 MRS)		MRSA only (n = 7) (5·4% of 130 MRS)		MR-CoNS + MRSA (n = 12) (9·2% of 130 MRS)
	n (%)	P *	n (%)	P	n (%)	P	n (%)	P
Females	99 (76·2)		83 (74·8)		5 (71·4)		11 (91·7)
Males	31 (23·8)		28 (25·2)		2 (28·6)		1 (8·3)
Hospitalized	14 (10·8)	0·2	12 (10·8)	0·3	0 (0·0)	0·4	2 (16·7)	0·3
Contact with HCW	36 (27·7)	0·5	29 (26·1)	0·27	3 (42·9)	0·4	4 (33·3)	0·7
Antibiotic exposure	41 (31·5)	0·4	36 (32·4)	0·3	2 (28·6)	0·9	3 (25)	0·7

MRS, Methicillin-resistant staphylococci; MR-CoNS, methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; HCW, healthcare worker.

^*Statistically significant trend (*P < 0·05) calculated by Pearson's χ² test.