Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Dispatch
MRSA USA300 at Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2000–2006
Michael Z. David
, Karen M. Rudolph, Thomas W. Hennessy, Diana L. Zychowski, Karthik Asthi, Susan Boyle-Vavra, and Robert S. Daum
, Karen M. Rudolph, Thomas W. Hennessy, Diana L. Zychowski, Karthik Asthi, Susan Boyle-Vavra, and Robert S. Daum
Table 1
Overview of patient characteristics from retrospective (2000–2003) and prospective (2004–2006) collections from Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, by location of patient residence*
| Characteristic | No. (%) samples |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage region |
Southwestern Alaska region |
Other Alaska regions |
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| Retrospective collection, n = 68 | Prospective collection, n = 29 | Retrospective collection, n = 33 | Prospective collection, n = 23 | Retrospective collection, n = 62 | Prospective collection, n = 9 | |||
| Sex | ||||||||
| M | 34 (50) | 10 (34) | 22 (67) | 12 (52) | 41 (66) | 7 (78) | ||
| F | 34 (50) | 19 (66) | 11 (33) | 11 (48) | 21 (34) | 2 (22) | ||
| Age group, y | ||||||||
| 0–2 | 1 (2) | 3 (10) | 4 (12) | 1 (4) | 4 (7) | 0 | ||
| 3–12 | 7 (10) | 2 (7) | 4 (12) | 6 (26) | 4 (7) | 0 | ||
| 13–20 | 9 (13) | 2 (7) | 3 (9) | 1 (4) | 3 (5) | 1 (11) | ||
| 21–39 | 24 (35) | 10 (35) | 11 (33) | 7 (30) | 7 (11) | 0 | ||
| 40–59 | 24 (35) | 11 (38) | 5 (15) | 4 (17) | 24 (39) | 4 (44) | ||
| >60 | 3 (4) | 1 (4) | 6 (18) | 4 (17) | 20 (32) | 4 (44) | ||
| Clinical specimen | ||||||||
| Blood | 1 (2) | 1 (4) | 0 | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bone or joint | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 1 (4) | 1 (2) | 1 (11) | ||
| Respiratory tract | 3 (4) | 1 (4) | 6 (18) | 2 (9) | 22 (36) | 2 (22) | ||
| Skin or soft tissue | 56 (82) | 25 (86) | 26 (79) | 15 (65) | 33 (53) | 3 (33) | ||
| Urine | 1 (2) | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | ||
| Other† | 6 (9) | 1 (4) | 1 (3) | 4 (17) | 4 (7) | 3 (33) | ||
| Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | ||
| Site of care (prospective only) | ||||||||
| Inpatient | NA | 2 (7) | NA | 11 (48) | NA | 5 (56) | ||
| Outpatient | NA | 27 (93) | NA | 12 (52) | NA | 4 (44) | ||
| Emergency | NA | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | 0 | ||
*NA, not available.
†Liver abscess, pleural fluid, tracheal culture after tracheostomy placement, surgical drain fluid culture, eye culture from eye with conjunctivitis, cultures from other eye specimens, culture from soft tissue of the neck, culture from ear with otitis media, and cultures from other ear specimens.
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