Nasal carriage as a source of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-16

  Von Eiff, Christof ^a   Becker, Karsten ^a   Machka, Konstanze ^b   Stammer, Holger ^b   Peters, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SmithKline Beecham Pharma GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOSE SECRETION; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0035804274     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200101043440102     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Epidemiology and prevention of nosocomial infections
2. Nosocomial and community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteremias from 1980 to 1993: Impact of intravascular devices and methicillin resistance
3. Staphylococcus aureus infections
4. Problems with antimicrobial resistance in gram-positive cocci
5. Emergence of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
6. The significance of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and the incidence of postoperative wound infection
7. Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus as a major risk factor for wound infections after cardiac surgery
8. Healthy carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: Its prevalence and importance
9. Reduction of surgical-site infections in cardiothoracic surgery by elimination of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus
10. Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in hemodialysis patients: Its role in infection and approaches to prophylaxis
11. Nasal mupirocin ointment decreases the incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias in haemodialysis patients
12. Efficacy of mupirocin nasal ointment in eradicating Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in chronic haemodialysis patients
13. Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage and infection in patients on hemodialysis: Efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis
14. Detection of Staphylococcus aureus by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the nuc gene
15. Application of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to molecular epidemiology
16. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: Criteria for bacterial strain typing
17. Identification of methicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci by polymerase chain reaction
18. A non-iterative accurate asymptotic confidence interval for the difference between two proportions
19. Staphylococcus aureus binding to human nasal mucin
20. Follow-up of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage after 8 years: Redefining the persistent carrier state
21. The carrier state: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
22. Carriage patterns of Staphylococcus aureus in a healthy non-hospital population of adults and children
23. Nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on admission to the surgical intensive care unit increases the risk of infection
24. Association between Staphylococcus aureus nasopharyngeal colonization and septicemia in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus
25. Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in patients on hemodialysis
26. Exit-site infection in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: A review
27. Nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among nasal carriers of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible strains
28. Decrease in Staphylococcus aureus exit-site infections and peritonitis in CAPD patients by local application of mupirocin ointment at the catheter exit site
29. Elimination of coincident Staphylococcus aureus nasal and hand carriage with intranasal application of mupirocin calcium ointment
30. Nasal and cutaneous carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in hemodialysis patients: The effect of nasal mupirocin
31. Comparative study of mupirocin and oral co-trimoxazole plus topical fusidic acid in eradication of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
32. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a causative agent of postoperative intra-abdominal infection: Relation to nasal colonization
33. Nasal carriage of and infection with Staphylococcus aureus in HIV-infected patients
34. How to select and interpret molecular strain typing methods for epidemiological studies of bacterial infections: A review for healthcare epidemiologists
35. Comparison of traditional and molecular methods of typing isolates of Staphylococcus aureus