A case control study of environmental and occupational exposures associated with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in patients admitted to a rural tertiary care hospital in a high density swine region

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Schinasi, Leah ^a   Wing, Steve ^a   Augustino, Kerri L ^b,c   Ramsey, Keith M ^b,c   Nobles, Delores L ^b,c   Richardson, David B ^a   Price, Lance B ^d,e   Aziz, Maliha ^d,e   Macdonald, Pia D M ^a,f   Stewart, Jill R ^g  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial antibiotic resistance; Concentrated animal feeding operations; Livestock; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; North Carolina

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH RISK; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOSE SMEAR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUIDAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; NORTH CAROLINA; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SWINE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902746546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-54     Document Type: Article

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