Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Minnesota, 2000–2003

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Buck, Jessica M. ; Como-Sabetti, Kathryn ; Harriman, Kathleen H. ; Danila, Richard N. ; Boxrud, David J. ; Glennen, Anita ; Lynfield, Ruth
• Description:
  We compared characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and CA-MRSA invasive disease identified in Minnesota from 2000 through 2003. A total of 586 patients with SSTIs and 65 patients with invasive disease were identified. Patients with invasive disease were more likely to be smokers (p = 0.03), and report a history of immunosuppressive therapy (p = 0.03), emphysema (p = 0.011), or injection drug use (p = 0.020) than were SSTI patients. Invasive disease isolates were less likely to be susceptible to ciprofloxacin (p = 0.002) and clindamycin (p = 0.001) and more likely to have healthcare-associated pulsed-field gel electrophoresis subtypes than SSTI isolates (p<0.001). Patients with invasive disease may have had healthcare exposures that put them at risk of acquiring healthcare-associated MRSA and which were not exclusion criteria in the CA-MRSA case definition. Continued surveillance of MRSA is needed to better characterize CA-MRSA infections.
• Subjects:
  Adult Community-Acquired Infections Female Humans Male Methicillin Resistance Research Risk Factors Soft Tissue Infections Staphylococcal Infections Staphylococcal Skin Infections Staphylococcus Aureus

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 11(10):1532-1538.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U50/CCU511190/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:dad734ea7c608cf18726b2fa84f62ec16885e12469763d49db743979ad8c7397
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15838/cdc_15838_DS1.pdf
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