Volume 11, Number 6—June 2005
Dispatch
Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Uruguay
Table
Clinical feature |
Adult patients infected in† |
Pediatric patients infected in‡ |
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Community |
Hospital |
Unknown |
Community |
Hospital |
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Skin and soft tissue | |||||
Abscess | 26 (4) ¶ | 3 (3) | |||
Boils | 20 (5) | 1(1) | |||
Cellulitis | 15 (3) | 2 (2) ¶ | 2 (1)¶ | ||
Hidradenitis | 3 (2) | ||||
Myositis | 1 (1) | ||||
Wound infection | 8 (3) | 11 (3) | |||
Infected atopic dermatitis | 1 (1)¶ | ||||
Respiratory tract | |||||
Upper respiratory tract infection | 4 (1) | ||||
Necrotizing pneumonia | 4 (3)¶# | ||||
Pneumonia | 1 (1) | 3 (1) ¶ | |||
Ventilator-associated pneumonia§ | 4(4) | ||||
Colonization in respiratory tract | 2(2) | ||||
Catheter-associated infection | 1 (1) ¶ | ||||
Cerebrospinal fluid shunt | 1(1) | ||||
Bone and joint infection | 2 (1)¶ | 1 (1)¶ | |||
"Sepsis" syndrome | 5 (4) ¶ | 4 (2) | |||
Total | 85 (27) | 23 (13) | 4 (2) | 10 (6) | 3 (3) |
*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; parenthesis indicate the numbers of case-patients whose MRSA isolates were analyzed in this study.
†The range and mean age were 16–82 years and 39.7 years, respectively. The number of male and female case-patients were 65 (58%) and 47 (42%), respectively. Twenty-nine case-patients required hospitalization.
‡The range and mean age were 16–82 years and 6 years, respectively. The numbers of male and female case-patients were 8 and 5, respectively. One patient required hospitalization.
§Ventilator-associated pneumonia of the patients in an intensive care unit.
¶Besides 9 cases of sepsis syndrome, some of the other case categories were also bacteremic. They were 1 abscess, 4 necrotizing pneumonia, 2 bone and joint, 2 cellulitis, 1 infected atopic dermatitis, and 1 catheter-associated infection.
#A strain isolated from 1 of the patients was lost for analysis in this study.