The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus burn wound colonization

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Kooistra Smid, Mirjam ^a   Nieuwenhuis, Marianne ^b   Van Belkum, Alex ^c   Verbrugh, Henri ^c  

^a Laboratory for Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^b MARTINI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Burn centre; Nasal carriage; Staphylococcus aureus; Wound colonization

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BURN; BURN INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DNA BINDING; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; THERMAL INJURY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

BURNS; CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; NASAL MUCOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 69949132474     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00565.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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