Heininger, Ulrich and Datta, Florence and Gervaix, Alain and Schaad, Urs B. and Berger, Christoph and Vaudaux, Bernard and Aebi, Christoph and Hitzler, Michael and Kind, Christian and Gnehm, Hanspeter E. and Frei, Reno and Pigs/Mrsa Study Group, . (2007) Prevalence of nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in children a multicenter cross-sectional study. Pediatric infectious disease journal, Vol. 26, no. 6. pp. 544-546.
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Abstract
In this cross-sectional multicenter study, we determined the rate of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in children admitted to 9 training hospitals in Switzerland during 1 month. From 1337 patients, 1363 nasal swabs were obtained (mean age 6.1 years, median 4.7 years, interquartile range 1.3-10.4 years) and 562 (41.3%) grew S. aureus. Only one isolate was MRSA (0.18%) which encoded mecA and femA genes as well as SCCmec type IV, whereas Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) was absent.
| Faculties and Departments: | 03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (Klinik) > Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (UKBB) 03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (Klinik) > Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (UKBB) |
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| UniBasel Contributors: | Heininger, Ulrich |
| Item Type: | Article, refereed |
| Article Subtype: | Research Article |
| Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| ISSN: | 0891-3668 |
| Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
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| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2012 06:53 |
| Deposited On: | 08 Jun 2012 06:30 |
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