Staphylococcus aureus colonization among household contacts of patients with skin infections: Risk factors, strain discordance, and complex ecology

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1523-1535

  Miller, Loren G ^a   Eells, Samantha J ^a   Taylor, Alexis R ^c   David, Michael Z ^b   Ortiz, Nancy ^a   Zychowski, Diana ^c   Kumar, Neha ^c   Cruz, Denise ^a   Boyle Vavra, Susan ^c   Daum, Robert S ^c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; CHICAGO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOS ANGELES; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 84861034586     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis213     Document Type: Article

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