Association between nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and infection in liver transplant recipients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1295-1299

  Bert, Frédéric ^a   Galdbart, Jacques Olivier ^a   Zarrouk, Virginie ^a   Le Mée, Jacques ^a   Durand, Francois ^a   Mentré, France ^b   Belghiti, Jacques ^a   Lambert Zechovsky, Nicole ^a   Fantin, Bruno ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034458386     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317469     Document Type: Article

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