Nasal meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among intensive care unit hospitalised adult patients in a Taiwanese medical centre: one time-point prevalence, molecular characteristics and risk factors for carriage

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-244

  Chen, C B ^a   Chang, H C ^a   Huang, Y C ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Colonisation; Intensive care unit; Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TAIWAN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TAIWAN;

EID: 77549088042     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.10.026     Document Type: Article

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