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Prevalence of nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in children a multicenter cross-sectional study |
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Published in | The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 2007, vol. 26, no. 6, p. 544-6 | |
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. | |
Keywords | Adolescent — Bacterial Proteins/genetics — Bacterial Toxins/genetics — Carrier State/epidemiology/microbiology — Child — Child, Preschool — Cross-Sectional Studies — DNA, Bacterial/genetics — Exotoxins/genetics — Female — Hospitalization — Hospitals, Teaching — Humans — Infant — Leukocidins/genetics — Male — Methicillin Resistance — Nasal Cavity/microbiology — Prevalence — Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology/microbiology — Staphylococcus aureus/drug effects/isolation & purification — Switzerland/epidemiology | |
Identifiers | PMID: 17529877 | |
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Research groups | Etiologie des pneumonies et marqueurs inflammatoires chez l'enfant fébrile (183) Recherche en infectiologie pédiatrique et en pédiatrie générale (853) | |
Citation (ISO format) | HEININGER, Ulrich et al. Prevalence of nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in children a multicenter cross-sectional study. In: The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2007, vol. 26, n° 6, p. 544-6. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31804d244a https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:43988 |