Wilmer et al (2011;32[12]:1227-1229)Author(s): Amanda Wilmer, MDSource: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (February 2012), p. 211Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiologyof AmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663962 .

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In the December 2011 issue of the journal, in the article byWilmer et al (Wilmer A, Lloyd-Smith E, Romney M, HoangL, Hull M, Champagne S. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus strain USA300 is prevalent among hospital-onset casesin an urban Canadian setting. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

2011;32(12):1227–1229), there are errors in Table 1. The sec-ond row (“Negative”) contains incorrect numbers. The cor-rected table is reprinted below. The author regrets these er-rors.

table 1. Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Results for Hospital-Onset Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusIsolates by Specimen Type from an Urban Hospital in Canada

Surveillance specimens Clinical specimens

PVL Nares or perineum Lower respiratory Blood Urine Skin and soft tissue Other Total

Positive 17 6 2 0 14 0 39Negative 42 13 1 3 22 3 84

Total 59 19 3 3 36 3 123

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