Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial to evaluate the efficacy of mupirocin for eradicating carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1412-1416

  Harbarth, Stephan ^a,b   Dharan, Sasi ^a   Liassine, Nadia ^a   Herrault, Pascale ^a   Auckenthaler, Raymond ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; METICILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING TEST; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032997292     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.6.1412     Document Type: Article

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