Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (MRSA) isolation from diabetic foot ulcers correlates with nasal MRSA carriage

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-50

  Stanaway, Stephen ^a   Johnson, Deborah ^a   Moulik, Probal ^a   Gill, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Foot ulceration; MRSA; Nasal carriage; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEUROPATHY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOSE SMEAR; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG EFFECT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE MUCOSA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33845199821     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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