BACKGROUND Enterococci normally inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and are also a potential pathogen in causing nosocomial infections. The increase in antibiotic resistance and transfer of antibiotic resistance gene to Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) due to co-colonization has increased its importance in research. The aim of the study was to evaluate local epidemiology of nasal and rectal...

BACKGROUND Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization among inpatients is a well-established risk factor for MRSA infection during the same hospitalization, but the long-term risk of MRSA infection is uncertain. We performed a retrospective cohort study to determine the one-year risk of MRSA infection among inpatients with MRSA-positive nasal polymerase chain reaction...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The upper and lower airways are continuous. While upper airway symptoms are common in COPD patients, with accumulating evidence to suggest increased nasal inflammation, the relationships among upper airway, lower airway, and systemic inflammatory indexes have not been studied. We aimed to confirm that there is heightened nasal inflammation in COPD patients, to test the hypothesi...

methods in a cross-sectional study, 164 adult patients who were admitted to the icu of a teaching hospital were screened for nasal and extra-nasal carriage of mrsa. in addition, the icu-hospitalized patients were evaluated for mrsa acquisition during their icu stay. results out of the 164 patients admitted to the icu, 12 (7.3%) patients were methicillin-susceptible staphylococcus aureus (mssa) ...

Abstract Background Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common cause of health-care associated infections, particularly bloodstream infections (BSI). Concomitant colonization the anterior nares has been shown to have implications on persistence, recurrence, and transmission events. We performed genomic comparisons between paired nasal blood MRSA isolates obtained from same p...

Staphylococcus aureus is an epidemiologically important pathogen. Nasal colonization occurs in approximately 27% of healthy individuals. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization is increasing among the healthcare personnel in US hospitals, and the percentage of MRSA isolated from hospitals in Louisiana has almost doubled over the past decade.1 Although a variety of studies have...

A survey in 2000 to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in Vancouver downtown east side injection drug users (IDUs) revealed an MRSA nasal colonization incidence of 7.4%. This is a follow-up study to determine the current prevalence of MRSA colonization and to further characterize the isolates and risk factors for colonization. In this point prevalence study o...

Prevalence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in HIV infection: a meta-analysis. Clin Infect Dis 2014;59:1302–1311. 3. Xu Y, Yang G, Liu H, et al. Epidemiologic features of AIDS in China, 2004-2013. Clin Infect Dis 2015;60:167–169. 4. Qu F, Cui E, Guo T, et al. Nasal colonization of and clonal transmission of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus a...

Nasal colonization with antibiotic resistant bacteria represents both a risk factor for the colonized individual and their immediate contacts. Despite the fact that healthcare workers such as orthopedic surgeons are at a critical interface between the healthcare environment and an at-risk patient population, the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria within the surgical profession remains ...