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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants

From: Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among pre-clinical and clinical medical students in a Tanzanian University

Variable

Frequency

Percent (%)

Sex

 Male

218

69.4

 Female

96

30.6

Course

 MD

271

86.3

 BMLS

43

13.7

Status of students

 Clinical

148

47.1

 Pre-clinical

166

52.9

Antibiotic usea

 Yes

36

11.5

 No

278

88.5

Hospital admissionb

 Yes

7

2.2

 No

307

97.8

Exposure to SSTIs

 Yes

3

1

 No

311

99

  1. MD Doctor of medicine, BMLS Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Sciences, SSTIs skin and soft tissue infections
  2. aIn the past 2 weeks
  3. bIn the past 3 months