Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: Epidemiology, underlying mechanisms, and associated risks

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 505-520

  Kluytmans, Jan ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^b   Verbrugh, Henri ^b  

^a Ignatius Hospital   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; COW; ENDOTHELIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAMMARY GLAND; MESOTHELIUM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOSE; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGERY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030746910     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.3.505-520.1997     Document Type: Review

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