Preoperative risk factors for nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 481-484

  Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a,c,e   Cullen, Joseph J ^a   French, Pamela ^d   Hu, Jianfang ^c   Pfaller, Michael A ^b   Wenzel, Richard P ^a   Perl, Trish M ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERADICATION THERAPY; GENDER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOSE; OBESITY; POPULATION RISK; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; IOWA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUPIROCIN; NASAL MUCOSA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 2942627129     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502426     Document Type: Article

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