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Table 3 Characteristics of patients with Staphylococcal aureus bacteremia

From: Risk and prognosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among individuals with and without end-stage renal disease: a Danish, population-based cohort study

Characteristics

ESRD

Population controls

Origin of infection

Community acquired

60 (5.08%)

193 (33.6%)

Hospital associated

794 (67.2%)

331 (57.7%)

Unknown

328 (27.8%)

50 (8.7%)

Methicillin category

Methicillin sensitive

815 (99.3%)

272 (99.3%)

Methicillin resistant

6 (0.7%)

2 (0.7%)

Complications

 

None/not registered

717 (93.1%)

224 (84.5%)

Endocarditis

24 (3.1%)

15 (5.7%)

Osteomyelitis

23 (3.0%)

24 (9.1%)

Meningitis*

6 (0.8%)

2 (0.6%)

  1. NOTE. No. of individuals (%). ESRD: end-stage renal disease *from 1990.
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