Focus on the prophylaxis, epidemiology and therapy of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections and a position paper on associated risk factors: the perspective of an Italian group of surgeons

Table 2 SSI epidemiology in Italy

Authors	Country	Period	Number of surgeries	SSIs
Petrosillo et al.	Italy, multicenter	2002, Prospectively for one month in 48 hospitals	4.665	241 (5,2 %)
Marchi et al.	Italy, multicenter	2009–2001, retrospective, 355 surgical departments	60.460	1.628 (2,6 %)
Fiorio et al.	Italy, multicenter	2002, Prospectively for one month in 48 hospitals, 32 surgical departments	2.972	158 (5,2 %)

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