A multicenter, cross-sectional study on the prevalence and risk factors for nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in patients admitted to children's hospitals in Switzerland

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 923-926

  Datta, Florence ^a   Erb, Thomas ^a   Heininger, Ulrich ^a   Gervaix, Alain ^c   Schaad, Urs B ^a   Berger, Christoph ^d   Vaudaux, Bernard ^e   Aebi, Christoph ^f   Hitzler, Michael ^g   Kind, Christian ^h   Gnehm, Hanspeter E ⁱ   Frei, Reno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^h Children's Hospital St Gallen   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Children's Hospital Aarau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NOSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASAL MUCOSA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 52449117460     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591700     Document Type: Article

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