Nosocomial Pneumonia Associated to PVL-Producing Staphylococcus aureus in Children in Benin

Table 2

Distribution of S. aureus from hospital personnel and environment from September 5 to October 20, 2009.

Origin	Number of samples analysed	Number of contaminated samples	Number of S. aureus positive samples	Other bacteria	Number of S. aureus PVL+ samples
Special cold food	150	94/150; (63%)	65/150; (43.33%)	29/150; (19.33%)	32/65; 49%
Inanimate environment	225	59/225; (26%)	38/225; (16.88%)	21/225; (9.33%)	6/38; (16%)
Personnel	221	75/221; (34%)	21/221; (9.5%)	54/221; (24.43%)	7/21; 33%

PVL: Panton-Valentine leukocidin.