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Volume 14, Number 11—November 2008
Research

Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Rural Southwestern Alaska1

Michael Z. DavidComments to Author , Karen M. Rudolph, Thomas W. Hennessy, Susan Boyle-Vavra, and Robert S. Daum
Author affiliations: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (M.Z. David, S. Boyle-Vavra, R.S. Daum); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anchorage, Alaska, USA (K.M. Rudolph, T.W. Hennessy);

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Table 2

Demographic and clinical characteristics for 120 patients infected with MRSA isolates in the prospective collection, southwestern Alaska, 2004–2006*

Characteristic No. (%)
Sex
Male 61 (50.8)
Female 56 (46.7)
Unknown
 3 (2.5)
Age, y
>1–2 11 (9.2)
3–12 14 (11.7)
13–20 22 (18.3)
21–49 53 (44.2)
>50 18 (15.0)
Unknown
 2 (0.2)
Location of care
Inpatient 11 (9.2)
Outpatient 106 (88.4)
Emergency department 59 (49.2)
Other outpatient 47 (39.2)
Unknown
 3 (2.5)
Place of onset by 72-h rule†
Community 114 (95.0)
Hospital 1 (0.8)
Unknown
 5 (3.3)
Site of isolation
Blood 3 (2.5)
Respiratory tract 1 (0.8)
Skin/wound 108 (90.0)
Urine 2 (1.7)
Bone/joint 1 (0.8)
Other 5 (4.2)

*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
†MRSA isolates were considered community onset if they were obtained from a patient in the outpatient setting or from a hospitalized patient within 72 h of admission; only 1 isolate was obtained from a patient who was considered to have had onset of the infection in the hospital.

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1Portions of this study were presented at the 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 17–20, 2007, Chicago, IL, USA.

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