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Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006
Research

Personal Hygiene and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection

George Turabelidze*Comments to Author , Mei Lin*, Barbara Wolkoff*, Douglas Dodson*, Stephen Gladbach*, and Bao-Ping Zhu*
Author affiliations: *Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

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Table 2

Distribution of hygiene factors among persons with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and controls, prison X, Missouri, 2002–2003*

Characteristics Case-patients, % (n = 30) Controls, % (n = 80) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Always wash personal items themselves
Yes 80 88.8 1.00
No 20 1.3 23.89 (2.07–275.88)
Not sure 0 10
Always wash bed linen themselves
Yes 26.7 52.5 1.00
No 73.3 37.5 3.88 (1.25–12.01)
Not sure 0 10
Share any product (cosmetics, nail clipper, shaver, bedding, etc.)
Yes 60 37.5 1.79 (0.64–4.99)
No 40 62.5 1.00
No. shared products
>2 33.3 17.5 2.15 (0.63–7.39)
1 26.7 20 1.49 (0.44–5.11)
0 40 62.5 1.00
Share shampoo
Yes 13.3 1.3 3.32 (0.30–36.67)
No 86.7 98.8 1.00
Share nail clipper
Yes 26.7 10 3.03 (0.85–10.74)
No 73.3 90 1.00
Wash hands, times per day
<6 6.7 2.5 2.17 (0.15–31.93)
6–12 50 32.5 3.27 (1.10– 9.76)
>12 43.3 65 1.00
Showers per week
<7 10 5 5.01 (0.53–47.11)
7–13 66.7 53.8 2.68 (0.85–8.46)
>14 23.3 41.3 1.00

*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. Adjusted ORs were from separate logistic regression models in which the individual hygiene factor and age, race, educational level, overweight (body mass index >25), and abnormal skin conditions before arrival were included.

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