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Table 6 Distribution of the socio-demographic variables in relation to the number of antibiotics resistant to S. aureus (except MRSA)

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

Number of antibiotics resistant to S. aureus

p-value

  

0

1

2

3+

 
  

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

 

Sex

Female

27.8 (70)

52.4 (132)

4.8 (12)

15.1 (38)

0.175

Male

31.8 (91)

54.5 (156)

2.1 (6)

11.5 (33)

 

Age

4–18

28.6 (8)

46.4 (13)

0

25.0 (7)

 

19–39

26.5 (43)

61.7 (100)

2.5 (4)

9.3 (15)

0.224

40–64

31.9 (79)

50.0 (124)

3.6 (9)

14.5 (36)

 

65+

33.0 (34)

50.5 (52)

4.9 (5)

11.7 (12)

 

Educational level

Primary

30.6 (81)

56.6 (150)

3.8 (10)

9.1 (24)

 

Secondary

31.4 (60)

51.3 (98)

1.6 (3)

15.7 (30)

0.127

Tertiary

31.4 (22)

45.7 (32)

5.7 (4)

17.1 (12)

 

Country of origin

Austria

31.5 (145)

52.7 (243)

2.8 (13)

13.0 (60)

 

EU 15+

22.7 (5)

54.5 (12)

4.5 (1)

18.2 (4)

0.748

New EU 28

25.0 (4)

56.3 (9)

6.3 (1)

12.5 (2)

 

Others

25.0 (9)

58.3 (21)

8.3 (3)

8.3 (3)

 

Location of residence

Urban

33.3 (66)

44.9 (89)a

4.0 (8)

17.7 (35)a

0.014

Rural

28.5 (98)

58.1 (200)b

2.9 (10)

10.5 (36)b

 

Job

Health care

30.8 (12)

46.2 (18)

5.1 (2)

17.9 (7)

 

Livestock farming

37.5 (6)

43.8 (7)

6.3 (1)

12.5 (2)

 

Kindergarten teacher/nanny

14.3 (1)

57.1 (4)

0

28.6 (2)

0.926

Others

29.9 (128)

54.9 (235)

3.0 (13)

12.1 (52)

 

Not known

32.7 (17)

48.1 (25)

3.8 (2)

15.4 (8)

 
  1. a,bThe 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