Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization using sponges

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 28-33

  Lee, Chang Seop ^a,b   Montalmont, Bianca ^a   O’Hara, Jessica A ^a   Syed, Alveena ^a   Chaussard, Charma ^a   McGaha, Traci L ^a   Pakstis, Diana L ^a   Lee, Ju Hyung ^b   Shutt, Kathleen A ^a   Doi, Yohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; GENERAL DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NOSE; NOSE SMEAR; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN CULTURE; SPONGE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL SPONGE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOSE; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL SPONGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922833197     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2014.4     Document Type: Article

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