Increasing rates of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in healthy children

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 617-621

  Creech II, Clarence B ^a   Kernodle, Douglas S ^a   Alsentzer, Andrew ^a   Wilson, Cynthia ^a   Edwards, Kathryn M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Methicillin resistant; Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus; Nasal carriage

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEUKOCIDIN; METICILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 22244485423     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000168746.62226.a4     Document Type: Article

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