Nasal screening of healthcare workers for nasal carriage of coagulase positive MRSA and prevalence of nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus

Biology and Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2 SPECIALISSUE, 2011, Pages 182-186

  Kumar, P ^a   Shukla, I ^b   Varshney, S ^b  

^a Department Physics IIMT   (India)

^b ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial drug resistance; CoNS; CoPS; MRSA; MSSA; Nasal carriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895886243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09748369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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