Prevalence of S. aureus and/or MRSA in hospitalized patients with diabetic foot and establishment of LAMP methods for rapid detection of the SCCmec gene

Table 1 Clinical data of 522 patients with DFIs

Type		Group	Cases	Sex		Age
Type		Group	Cases	Male	Female	30–49 years	50–69 years	70–89 years
S. aureus infection (145 cases)	Single Infection (84 cases)	Only MSSA	53	37	16	12	29	12
	Single Infection (84 cases)	Only MRSA	31	23	8	4	23	4
	Mixed Infection (61 cases)	Multiple bacteria were co-isolated with MSSA	43	33	10	4	31	8
	Mixed Infection (61 cases)	Multiple bacteria were co-isolated with MRSA	18	11	7	4	5	9
Other types of bacterial infection (377 cases)	Single Infection (193 cases)	Only coagulase-negative Staphylococcus	53	33	20	6	35	12
		Only Enterococcus	25	18	7	2	17	6
		Only Streptococcus	19	17	2	6	12	1
		Only Enterobacter	62	38	24	11	36	15
		Only non-fermentative bacteria	19	13	6	1	10	8
		Only Candida	15	9	6	1	10	4
	Mixed Infection (184 cases)	Multiple bacteria without MSSA/MRSA	184	120	64	17	107	60

No significant differences were found in sex and age among the infection groups (P ≥ 0.05)
The bolded characters represent information about patients who were infected with MRSA
Abbreviations: DFIs Diabetic Foot Infections, MSSA Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus Aureus, MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

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