The nasal carrier status of 3,736 patients was determined throughout their stay in hospital. The carrier rate on admission, which was highest in patients under 20 years of age, did not appear to vary with season.The carriage of strains resistant to penicillin increased with the patients' stay in hospital from 13.% on admission to 20.5% on discharge, and the acquisition of these strains was enha...

A persistent nasal carrier of Staphlylococcus aiureus tends to harbour the same phage type of organism for many months (Williams, 1946: Rountree and Barbour, 1951 : Gould and MeKillop, 1954). At the same time it has been shown that nurses in hospital possess a high carriage rate for penicillin-resistant Staph. aureus (Barber, Hayhoe, and Whitehead, 1949; Rountree and Thomson, 1952; Barber, Wils...

BACKGROUND The rapid emergence and spread of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has raised considerable public health concern in both developed and developing countries. The current study aimed to address the extent of this phenomenon in healthy preschool children of a developing country. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a prospective study from April...

Introduction: Bacterial infections are known to be a major source of morbidity and mortality in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Staphylococcus aureus is recognised to colonise the anterior nares of HIV infected persons with greater frequency than that of general population which can lead to a higher incidence of infection. Material and methods: Three hundred patients ...

Present study was conducted to assess the nasal carriage rate of methicilin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among patients, visitors/patient attendants and healthcare personnel at National Medical College Teaching Hospital, Birgunj, Nepal. A total of 112 nasal swabs (patients: 31, visitors/patient attendants: 61, and healthcare personnel: 20) were subjected to bacteriological investigati...

Objectives: To describe the Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) nasal carriage as well as its antibiotic resistance patterns among Tibetan healthy school children in Songpan County in Southwest China. Methods: Nasal swabs of both anterior nares were collected from healthy school children. The identification of S. aureus was based on the colony morphology, biochemical tests and the results of Slid...

Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent cause of infections in both the community and hospital. Worldwide, the increasing resistance of this pathogen to various antibiotics complicates treatment of S aureus infections. Effective measures to prevent S aureus infections are therefore urgently needed. It has been shown that nasal carriers of S aureus have an increased risk of acquiring an infection wi...

OBJECTIVES There is a paucity of data on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) epidemiology among Balkan countries. The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of nasal and pharyngeal carriages and diversity of MRSA among patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) in the major referral centre in Serbia, and to evaluate performance of three different media for MRSA screening. ...