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Table 1 Distribution of the socio-demographic variables among S. aureus carriers, carriers with resistances and MRSA carriers

From: Prevalence and resistance patterns of commensal S. aureus in community-dwelling GP patients and socio-demographic associations. A cross-sectional study in the framework of the APRES-project in Austria

Variable

Sub-variable

All

S. aureus carrier

S. aureus carrier with resistances

S. aureus carrier with resistances (besides PEN)

MRSA carrier

  

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

All

 

100 (3309)

16.6 (549)

70.1 (385)

64.8 (356)

1.5 (8)

Sex

Female

56.6 (1862)a

13.9 (257)a

72.8 (187)

66.1 (170)a

2.3 (6)

 

Male

43.6 (1428)b

20.3 (288)b

68.4 (197)

64.2 (185)a

0.7 (2)

p

 

<0.001

<0.001

0.235

0.640

0.234

Age

4–18

4.2 (139)

20.1 (28)a

71.4 (20)

67.9 (19)

0

 

19–39

27.6 (913)a

18.2 (166)a,b

74.1 (123)

71.1 (118)

2.4 (4)

 

40–64

45.1 (1493)b

16.8 (251)a,b

68.5 (172)

62.2 (156)

1.2 (3)

 

65+

23.1 (764)c

13.6 (251)b

67.3 (70)

60.6 (63)

1.0 (1)

p

 

<0.001

0.043

0.580

0.206

0.651

Educational level

Primary

49.0 (1580)a

16.9 (265)

69.4 (184)

65.3 (173)

0.4 (1)

 

Secondary

37.3 (1203)b

16.2 (194)

69.1 (134)

62.9 (120)

1.5 (3)

 

Tertiary

13.7 (442)c

16.8 (74)

70.3 (52)

64.9 (48)

5.4 (4)

p

 

<0.001

0.891

0.991

0.741

0.018

Country of origin

      
 

Austria

86.0 (2806)a

16.7 (467)

69.0 (322)

63.6 (297)

1.5 (7)

 

EU 15+

3.2 (103)b

21.6 (22)

77.3 (17)

72.7 (16)

0

 

New EU 28

2.8 (94)b

18.1 (17)

76.5 (13)

70.6 (12)

5.9 (1)

 

Others

7.9 (259)b

14.0 (36)

75.0 (27)

69.4 (25)

0

p

 

<0.001

0.352

0.742

0.688

0.698

Location of residence

      
 

Urban

43.9 (1461)a

13.8 (200)a

67.2 (135)

59.2(119)a

1.5 (3)

 

Rural

56.1 (1867)b

18.8 (345)b

71.8 (250)

68.1 (237)b

1.4 (5)

p

 

<0.001

<0.001

0.287

0.035

0.828

Job

      
 

Health care

5.8 (194)a,b

21.6 (42)

71.4 (30)

64.3 (27)

7.1 (3)

 

Livestock farming

2.9 (96)b

16.7 (16)

62.5 (10)

56.3 (9)

0

 

Kindergarten teacher/nanny

1.9 (62)b

11.3 (7)

85.7 (6)

85.7 (6)

0

p

Others

78.8 (2621)c

16.5 (431)

70.3 (303)

64.7 (279)

0.9 (4)

 

Not known

10.7 (355)a,b

15.7 (53)

67.9 (36)

66.0 (35)

1.9 (1)

  

<0.001

0.302

0.866

0.755

0.119

  1. a,b,The subscript letters represent a subset of the variable category which is not significantly different at a significance level of p < 0.05 if it is the same subscript for the same sub-variable
  2. Significance at significance level of p < 0.005
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