Nasal carriage rate of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Dessie Referral Hospital Health Care Workers; Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shibabaw, Agumas ^a,b   Abebe, Tamrat ^b   Mihret, Adane ^b,c  

^a WOLLO UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; MRSA; Nasal carriage; S. aureus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDWIFE; NOSE SMEAR; NURSE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84904883070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-2-25     Document Type: Article

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