Midkine Is Expressed and Differentially Processed during Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Associated with Staphylococcus aureus Infection

Table 2 Characteristics of COPD and VAP patients, bacterial methicillin resistance and virulence-associated gene profile.

					Methicillin resistance: cefoxitin	Virulence-associated genes
ID number	Gender	Age (years)	Underlying disease/injury	Days on ventilator	Methicillin resistance: cefoxitin	spa	pvl	tsst-1
A1	M	79	COPD	0	S	t091	N	N
A10	F	70	COPD	0	S	t9929	N	N
B1	M	42	COPD	0	S	t449	N	N
B5	F	79	COPD	0	S	t166	N	POS
B6	F	80	COPD	0	S	t094	N	N
B9	M	86	COPD	0	S	NT	N	POS
A2	F	67	Trauma	4	S	t005	N	N
A3	M	50	Cerebral hemorrhage	1	S	t2094	N	N
A4	M	25	Trauma	3	S	t127	POS	POS
A6	M	27	Trauma	3	S	t002	N	N
A7	M	46	Acute myocardial infarction	3	S	t056	N	N
A9	F	48	Subarachnoid hemorrhage	4	S	t056	N	N
B3	M	47	Cerebral infarction	3	S	t1743	N	N
B7	F	59	Neurosurgery	6	S	t002	N	N
B10	M	36	Trauma	3	S	t1931	N	N
C1	F	1	Sepsis	unknown	S	t065	N	N

The number of days on a ventilator was calculated from day of admittance until day of antibiotics administration or until death. S, sensitive; N, negative; POS, positive; NT, nontypeable.

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