Relationship between Overcrowding, Other Markers of Poverty and Community Acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Abstract

We studied familiar SSTI at community level as the presence of any of the following conditions: suppurative lesions, wound infections, consultations or prior hospitalizations for these diseases, isolation of Staphylococcus aureus by culture in a member of the family, treatment with Beta-lactams, cephalexin, co-trimoxazole, clindamycin, erythromycin, azithromycin or clarithromycin for SSTI, mupirocin treatment, and drainage of suppurative lesions. We could determine a statistical association of these infections with familial overcrowding and location of the home at the poorer neighborhoods.