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Volume 12, Number 12—December 2006
Dispatch

Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Healthcare Risk Factors

R. Monina Klevens*Comments to Author , Melissa A. Morrison*, Scott K. Fridkin*, Arthur L. Reingold†, Susan Petit‡, Ken Gershman§, Susan M. Ray¶, Lee H. Harrison#, Ruth Lynfield**, Ghinwa Dumyati††, John M. Townes‡‡, Allen S. Craig§§, Gregory Fosheim*, Linda K. McDougal*, Fred C. Tenover*, and for the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance of the Emerging Infections Program Network
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; ‡Connecticut Department of Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; §Colorado Emerging Infections Program, Denver, Colorado, USA; ¶Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; **Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ††University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA; ‡‡Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; §§Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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Table 1

Selected characteristics among case-patients with invasive MRSA, by healthcare-related risk factors (HRFs), Active Bacterial Core Surveillance, January 2004–February 2006*

Characteristic With HRFs, no. (%)
Without HRFs, no. (%)
Healthcare-associated, n = 2,535 Healthcare-associated, community onset, n = 5,353 Community-associated,† n = 1,259
Median age, y 62‡ 62‡ 46
Pneumonia 413 (16.3) 685 (12.8)‡ 190 (15.1)
Endocarditis 72 (2.8)‡ 345 (6.4)‡ 158 (12.6)
Died 687 (27.1)‡ 845 (15.8)‡ 131 (10.4)

*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; HRFs, healthcare-related risk factors.
†Patients with community-associated infections were those who did not have HRFs; these patients were used as reference.
‡p<0.05 for χ2 test for categorical variables; Wilcoxon rank sum for age.

*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; HRFs, healthcare-related risk factors.
†Patients with community-associated infections were those who did not have HRFs; these patients were used as reference.
‡p<0.05 for χ2 test for categorical variables; Wilcoxon rank sum for age.

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