mrsa_clin: A data set containing the clinical data of the subjects...

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Data from a study to define the nasal microbiome of hospital inpatients who are persistently colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) compared with matched, non-colonized controls. See original paper for matching proceedure.

Usage

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Format

A 52x15 data.frame

Lib

A character vector of sequencing library names

Subject

Subject names

Age

Subject's Ages in years

Antibiotics

Whether or not subjects were on some form of antibiotics. 'N' = No, 'Y' = Yes

Aureus_Positve

Whether or not subjects were positive for S.Aureus (methicillin-sensitive or methicillin-resistent)

Case_or_Control

Whether or not the subject was MRSA positive (methicillin-resistent S.Aureus positive). 'Case' = MRSA positive

Decade

Subjects age in decades. '8' means the subject was in their 80s

Diabetes

Whether or not the subject had diabets. 'N' = No, 'Y' = Yes

Match

Numeric variable indicating matched subjects. See original paper for full matching procedure.

MRSA_Postive

Whether or not the subject was MRSA positive. 'Y' = MRSA positive

Nasal_Steroids

Whether or not the subject was using nasal steroids. 'N' = No, 'Y' = Yes

Nursing_Home

Whether or not the subject was staying in a nursing home. 'N' = No, 'Y' = Yes

Sex

Subject sex. All male as subjects were matched on sex

Smoking

Subject's smoking status. 'F' = Former, 'N' = Never, 'Y' = Yes/current smoker

Source

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2015.08.008


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