Insights into nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in an urban and a rural community in Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Egyir, Beverly ^a,b,c   Guardabassi, Luca ^b   Esson, Joseph ^d   Nielsen, Søren Saxmose ^b   Newman, Mercy Jemima ^d   Addo, Kennedy Kwasi ^c   Larsen, Anders Rhod ^a  

^a Statens Serum Institute   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PHENOTYPE; PVL GENE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOSE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOSE; PENICILLINS; RURAL POPULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRACYCLINE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84899723331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096119     Document Type: Article

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