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.
mrsa_clin
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
Case_or_Control
Whether or not the subject was MRSA 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 matchus subjects
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
Smoking
Subject's smoking status. 'F' = Former, 'N' = Never, 'Y' = Yes/current smoker
Lib names
The following columns are the sequencing counts for each library with library names