Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and colonization or infection at other body sites in patients on a burn trauma unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 721-726

  Reighard, Amber ^a   Diekema, Daniel ^a,b,e,f   Wibbenmeyer, Lucy ^c,f   Ward, Melissa ^a   Herwaldt, Loreen ^a,d,e  

^a Departments of Microbiology and Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b Departments of Pathology   (United States)

^c Departments of Surgery   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURN UNIT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOSE SMEAR; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BURN UNITS; BURNS; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; ODDS RATIO; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651102755     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598681     Document Type: Article

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