Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in community-recruited injection drug users: Are throat swabs necessary?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1721-1724

  Lloyd Smith, E ^a   Hull, M W ^b,c   Hawkins, D ^a   Champagne, S ^b   Kerr, T ^b,c   Romney, M G ^a,b  

^a Infection Prevention and Control   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIV AIDS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colonization; community; injection drug user; MRSA; screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION DRUG USER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; THROAT CULTURE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84864481910     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002421     Document Type: Article

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