Volume 11, Number 10—October 2005
Research
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Western Australia
Lynne Dailey*, Geoffrey W. Coombs†, Frances G. O'Brien*, John W. Pearman†, Keryn Christiansen†, Warren B. Grubb*, and Thomas V. Riley‡
Table 1
Notifications of MRSA and rates per 100,000 population*
| Location | No. notifications (rate) |
Total no. MRSA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||
| Central Wheatbelt | 13 (25.5) | 28 (54.9) | 34 (66.7) | 37 (72.6) | 41 (80.4) | 153 |
| Goldfields | 112 (199.9) | 110 (196.3) | 83 (148.1) | 91 (162.4) | 56 (99.9) | 452 |
| Great Southern | 60 (87.8) | 55 (80.5) | 43 (62.9) | 87 (127.3) | 91 (133.2) | 336 |
| Kimberley | 107 (255.0) | 97 (231.1) | 140 (333.6) | 112 (266.9) | 115 (274.0) | 571 |
| East Metropolitan | 251 (109.2) | 348 (151.4) | 415 (180.5) | 529 (230.1) | 446 (194.0) | 1,989 |
| North Metropolitan | 175 (33.5) | 248 (47.5) | 324 (62.1) | 384 (73.5) | 384 (73.5) | 1,515 |
| South Metropolitan | 508 (86.4) | 610 (103.8) | 769 (130.8) | 745 (126.7) | 830 (141.2) | 3,462 |
| Mid West & Gascoyne | 79 (117.3) | 98 (145.5) | 116 (172.2) | 126 (187.0) | 120 (178.1) | 539 |
| Pilbara | 47 (109.9) | 44 (102.9) | 47 (109.9) | 38 (88.9) | 52 (121.6) | 228 |
| South West | 68 (37.4) | 89 (48.9) | 78 (42.9) | 111 (61.0) | 137 (75.3) | 483 |
| Other/Unknown | 21 | 40 | 53 | 66 | 47 | 227 |
| Total | 1,441 (77.9) | 1,767 (95.5) | 2,102 (113.7) | 2,326 (125.8) | 2,319 (125.4) | 9,995 |
*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
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