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Table 1 Frequency of MRSA detection in different surveillance and clinical specimens of 35 patients

From: Acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus after living donor liver transplantation: a retrospective cohort study

Sites

Number of patients (%)

Nares

24 (69%)

Pharynx

21 (60%)

Sputum

18 (51%)

Stool

18 (51%)

Urine

11 (31%)

Wound

8 (23%)

Intraabdominal drain

5 (14%)

Bile

3 (9%)

Intravascular catheter

2 (6%)

Ascites

2 (6%)

Pleural effusion

2 (6%)

Blood

1 (3%)

  1. Thirty of 35 patients had MRSA detected from multiple sites.