Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus cases
| Meticillin-resistant (N=15419) n, col % | Meticillin-sensitive (N=29122) n, col % | Percentage meticillin-resistant (row %) | |
| Total samples | 15 419 (100) | 29 122 (100) | 35 |
| Isolated from | |||
| Blood | 1627 (11) | 2934 (10) | 36 |
| Invasive samples | 4423 (29) | 10 208 (35) | 30 |
| Surface samples | 9369 (61) | 15 980 (55) | 37 |
| Isolation | |||
| First | 4903 (32) | 11 272 (39) | 30 |
| Subsequent | 10 516 (68) | 17 850 (61) | 37 |
| Gender | |||
| Not male* | 6197 (40) | 12 963 (45) | 32 |
| Male | 9222 (60) | 16 159 (55) | 36 |
| Age | |||
| Early neonatal (0–6 days) | 36 (0.2) | 764 (3) | 4 |
| Late neonatal (7–28 days) | 48 (0.3) | 332 (1) | 13 |
| 29 days to 4 years | 258 (2) | 2864 (10) | 8 |
| 5–9 years | 60 (0.4) | 830 (3) | 7 |
| 10–19 years | 237 (2) | 1839 (6) | 11 |
| 20–29 years | 531 (3) | 2564 (9) | 17 |
| 30–39 years | 778 (5) | 2802 (10) | 22 |
| 40–49 years | 1123 (7) | 2792 (10) | 29 |
| 50–59 years | 1965 (13) | 3158 (11) | 38 |
| 60–69 years | 2761 (18) | 3536 (12) | 44 |
| 70–79 years | 3836 (25) | 3833 (13) | 50 |
| 80–89 yearsyears | 3018 (20) | 2936 (10) | 51 |
| 90–99 years | 746 (5) | 682 (2) | 52 |
| Location of specimen | |||
| Intensive therapy unit | 7873 (39) | 15078 (44) | 34 |
| Haemodialysis | 5760 (28) | 6276 (18) | 48 |
| Nosocomial | 4906 (24) | 5227 (15) | 48 |
| Admission | 1734 (9) | 7524 (22) | 19 |
* Gender missing in two cases.