Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Acutely Ill Children: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.

Objectives: To test if admission clinical and laboratory variables could reliably discriminate community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections from methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infections in acutely ill children, and to describe the epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes among children with Staphylococcal infections admitted to the hospital.

Methods: The authors conducted this retrospective case-control study comparing children with CA-MRSA and MSSA infections admitted to hospital between June 2014 and June 2017. They describe the evolving epidemiology and attempt to identify clinical and laboratory variables that can differentiate MRSA cases from MSSA controls.