Prevalence of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and susceptibility of isolates to methicillin and mupirocin among healthcare workers in an Iranian hospital [1]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-325

  Rahbar, Mohammad ^a   Yaghoobi, Mahmood ^b   Kia Darbandsari, Behnam ^b  

^a Reference Laboratories of Iran   (Iran)

^b MILAD HOSPITAL   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; WOUND;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; IRAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MUPIROCIN; NASAL MUCOSA; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33645572312     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501153     Document Type: Letter

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