Long-term Staphylococcus aureus carrier state in hospital patients
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Long-term Staphylococcus aureus carrier state in hospital patients.
Staphylococcus aureus colonization of 326 predominantly chronic-care (long-term) patients was studied for 24 years. There were 5,827 upper respiratory cultures positive for S. aureus, ranging from 10 to 88 per patient, determined by the number of years (1 to 21; average, 4.6) that the patient was studied. Patients on the average carried 2.8 S. aureus strains. One patient carried eight strains. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.16.3.517-520.1982