Positive nasal culture of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a risk factor for surgical site infection in orthopedics

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 486-490

  Yano, Koichi ^a   Minoda, Yukihide ^a   Sakawa, Akira ^a   Kuwano, Yoshihiro ^a   Kondo, Kyoko ^b   Fukushima, Wakaba ^b   Tada, Koichi ^a  

^a KANSAI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE CAVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249112135     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453670903110675     Document Type: Article

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