Table 1 |
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| Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) among patients receiving hemodialysis in Taiwan, stratified by patients receiving individual survey or both surveys | ||||||
| Colonization | CGMH | YMH | Total | |||
| Individual | Both | Individual | Both | Individual | Both | |
| Subject No. of 1stsampling | 116 | 104 | 129 | 129 | 245 | 233 |
| MSSA | 14 (12.1) | 12 (11.5) | 16 (12.4) | 16 (12.4) | 30 (12.2) | 28 (12) |
| MRSA | 6 (5.2) | 6 (5.8) | 3 (2.3) | 3 (2.3) | 9 (3.7) | 9 (3.9) |
| Subject No. of 2ndsampling | 149 | 104 | 135 | 129 | 284 | 233 |
| MSSA | 17 (11.4) | 10 (9.6) | 17 (12.6) | 17 (13.2) | 34 (12.0) | 27 (11.6) |
| MRSA | 5 (3.4) | 3 (2.9) | 6 (4.4) | 5 (3.9) | 11 (3.9) | 8 (3.4) |
| Total No. of samplings | 265a | 104b | 264a | 129b | 529a | 233b |
| MSSA | 31 (11.7) | 13c (12.5) | 33 (12.5) | 24c (18.6) | 64 (12.1) | 37c (15.9) |
| MRSA | 11 (4.2) | 8c (7.7) | 9 (3.4) | 8c (6.2) | 20 (3.8) | 16c (6.9) |
CGMH: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, YMH: Yang Ming Hospital, aby samplings number, bby subjects number, cat least one positive specimen.
No significant difference was found for carriage rate of MSSA or MRSA between two hospitals by Fisher’s exact test.
Kang et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12:284 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-284
