Volume 11, Number 6—June 2005
Dispatch
Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pediatric Patients
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of hospitalized pediatric patients with CA-MRSA and CA-MSSA infections*
Demographic data | No. MRSA (n = 159), (%) | No. MSSA (n = 80), (%) | p value |
---|---|---|---|
Age, median (range) | 1.6 y (1.5 mo–17.9 y) | 2.6 y (2 mo–17.7 y) | <0.05 |
Female sex | 86 (54.0) | 38 (47.5) | NS |
Ethnicity | |||
African American | 75 (47.1) | 27 (33.7) | <0.05 |
Hispanic | 52 (32.7) | 32 (40.0) | NS |
White | 21 (13.2) | 14 (17.5) | NS |
Other | 11 (6.9) | 7 (8.7) | NS |
Clinical data | NS | ||
Duration bacteremia (d)†, mean ± SD | 2.4 ± 1.8 | 1.1 ± 0.3 | 0.06 |
Surgical intervention | 140 (88.1) | 57 (70.4) | <0.01 |
Hospital days, median (range) | 3 (1–53) | 4 (1–38) | NS |
Intensive care‡ | 13 (8.2) | 10 (12.5) | NS |
*CA, community-associated; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus; NS, not significant; SD, standard deviation.
†Positive blood cultures: 7 MRSA and 9 MSSA.
‡No. patients who required treatment in the pediatric intensive care unit.