Preoperative intranasal mupirocin ointment significantly reduces postoperative infection with Staphylococcus aureus in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal surgery

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-21

  Yano, Masahiko ^a   Doki, Yuichiro ^a   Inoue, Masatoshi ^a   Tsujinaka, Toshimasa ^a   Shiozaki, Hitoshi ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Mupirocin; Nasal carriage; Postoperative infection; Staphylococcal infection

Indexed keywords

MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; POVIDONE IODINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0033969138     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00010040     Document Type: Article

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