Table 1.
Patients' demographic data and Staphylococcus aureus infection sites
| S. aureus | Gender | Age | Ward | Site of infection | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Mean range |
ICU | INT | HEART | EMRG | NERO | SW | INF | PEDI | LC | BC | WC | UC | Other | |||||||
| No. (%) | Years | No. (%) | No. (%) | |||||||||||||||||||
| MSSA | 19 (46.3) | 22 (53.7) | 49 (4-85) | 12 (29.3) | 4 (9.7) | 1 (2.4) | 14 (34.1) | 3 (7.3) | 4 (9.7) | 2 (4.8) | 1 (2.4) | 12 (29.3) | 12 (29.3) | 6 (14.6) | 4 (9.7) | 7 (17.1) | ||||||
| MRSA | 19 (76) | 6 (24) | 54 (9-83) | 13 (52) | 4 (16) | 0 | 0 | 2 (8) | 1 (4) | 4 (16) | 1 (4) | 15 (60) | 2 (8) | 6 (24) | 2 (8) | 0 | ||||||
| Total | 38 (57.6) | 28 (42.4) | 48 (4-85) | 25 (37.8) | 8 (12.1) | 1 (1.5) | 14 (21.2) | 5 (7.5) | 5 (7.5) | 6 (9.1) | 2 (3) | 27 (40.9) | 14 (21.1) | 12 (18.1) |
6 (9.1) | 7 (10.6) | ||||||
ICU: intensive care unit, INT: internal medicine, Heart: cardiology, EMRG: emergency, SW: special ward, INF: infectious diseases, PEDI: pediatric, LC: tracheal aspirate culture, BC: blood culture, UC: urine culture, WC: wound culture