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Table 3 Complications of Staphylococcus aureus blood stream infections

From: Trends of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive care unit from 2000-2009

 

Period A (2000-2003) n = 41

Period B (2004-2009) n = 115

pvalue (comparing MRSA infection in the two periods)

Complications

MSSA (n = 31)

MRSA (n = 10)

MSSA (n = 51)

MRSA (n = 64)

 

Septic shock

0 (0%)

1 (2.4%)

4 (3.5%)

13 (11.3%)

0.115

Concomitant soft tissue/skin infection

4 (9.8%)

6 (14.6%)

5 (4.3%)

13 (11.3%)

0.584

Pneumonia

6 (14.6%)

1 (2.4%)

7 (6.1%)

31 (27.0%)

0.0005

Necrotizing enterocolitis

1 (2.4%)

4 (9.8%)

3 (2.6%)

5 (4.3%)

0.2435

Mortality

4 (9.8%)

0 (0%)

6 (5.2%)

18 (15.7%)

0.0038

Length of hospitalization (mean number of days)

87.4 ± 40.6

80.6 ± 42.4

55.7 ± 30.2

53.6 ± 36.6

0.0371