Prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its antibiotic susceptibility pattern in healthcare workers at Namazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Askarian, Mehrdad ^a   Zeinalzadeh, Alihosein ^a   Japoni, Aziz ^a   Alborzi, Abdolvahab ^a   Memish, Ziad A ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic susceptibility; Healthcare workers; Iran; MRSA; Nasal carriage; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL DNA; CATALASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COAGULASE; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MANNITOL; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EMERGENCY WARD; EPSILOMETER TEST; FEMALE; FERMENTATION MEDIUM; GRAM STAINING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NURSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL WARD;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CLINDAMYCIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949171926     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.11.026     Document Type: Article

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