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Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research

Contrasting Pediatric and Adult Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

Michael Z. David*Comments to Author , Susan E. Crawford*, Susan Boyle-Vavra*, Mark A. Hostetler*, Daniel C. Kim*, and Robert S. Daum*
Author affiliations: *University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Table 1

Inpatient adult and pediatric methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates by procurement time after admission*

Time after admission, h Adult inpatient isolates (%), n = 272 Pediatric inpatient isolates (%), n = 86 p value†
<24 147 (54.0) 56 (65.1) 0.07
<48 159 (58.5) 60 (69.8) 0.06
<72 175 (64.3) 62 (72.1) 0.18

*Values are number (%).
†p value comparing adult and pediatric isolates for each category of time after admission, χ2 test.

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