Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in Thika Level 5 Hospital, Kenya: A cross-sectional study

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Aiken, Alexander M ^a,b   Mutuku, Irene M ^b   Sabat, Artur J ^c   Akkerboom, Viktoria ^c   Mwangi, Jonah ^d   Scott, J A G ^a,b   Morpeth, Susan C ^a,b   Friedrich, Alexander W ^c   Grundmann, Hajo ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Thika Level 5 Hospital   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Carriage prevalence; Hospitals; Kenya; MRSA; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURN PATIENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KENYA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84925840444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-3-22     Document Type: Article

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