Antibiotic Resistance Profile of Staphylococcus aureus in Cancer Patients at Laquintinie Hospital in Douala, Littoral Region, Cameroon

Table 4

Different risk factors for resistance in the study groups.

	Cancer patients	Noncancer patients	( value)
Exposure to antibiotics in the past six months
Yes	203 (66.12%)	56 (28%)	70.34 (<0.001)
No	104 (33.88%)	144 (72%)
Hospitalized patients
Yes	180 (58.63%)	0 (0.00%)	181.81 (<0.001)
No	127 (41.37%)	200 (100%)
Number of hospitalizations during the past year
1–2 times	134 (43.64%)	30 (15%)	14.08 (<0.001)
3–5 times	69 (22.47%)	1 (0.50%)	9.87 (<0.001)
>5 times	10 (3.25%)	0 (0.00%)	1.51 (0.124)
Number of days last hospitalized
3–5 days	79 (25.73%)	ND	N/A
6–8 days	65 (21.17%)	ND
>8 days	33 (10.74%)	ND

ND: not defined; N/A: not applicable; : chi-square.