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Table 2 Association of Students’ S. aureus carriage with demographic and clinical characteristics

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

Variable

S. aureus carriage

p value

Yes (N = 66)

n (%)

No (N = 248)

n (%)

 

Age

 Median (IQR)

24.5 (23–28)a

24 (22–26.5)a

0.1323

Gender

 Male

43 (65.2)

175 (70.6)

0.396

 Female

23 (34.8)

73 (29.4)

Course

 MD

57 (86.4)

214 (86.3)

0.988

 BMLS

9 (13.6)

34 (13.7)

Clinical

 Yes

33 (50.0)

115 (46.4)

0.600

 No

33 (50.0)

133 (53.5)

Antibiotic useb

 Yes

6 (9.1)

30 (12.1)

0.496

 No

60 (90.9)

218 (87.9)

Hospital admissionc

 Yes

1 (1.5)

6 (2.4)

0.548

 No

65 (98.5)

242 (97.6)

Exposure to SSTIs

 Yes

0 (0.0)

3 (1.2)

0.491

 No

66 (100)

245 (98.8)

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