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Nasal and Cutaneous Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in Hemodialysis Patients: The Effect of Nasal Mupirocin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Johan R. Boelaert ,
Herman W. Van Landuyt ,
Bart Z. Gordts ,
Yvan A. De Baere ,
Shawn A. Messer  and
Loreen A. Herwaldt
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Abstract

Fifteen of 20 hemodialysis patients who carried Staphylococcus aureus in their nares also carried the organism on their hands; 2 of 20 patients who did not carry S aureus in their nares carried S aureus on their hands (P<.001). Eightyseven percent of patients who carried S aureus in their nares and on their hands carried the same strain at both sites. Intranasal mupirocin eliminated S aureus from both sites.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 12 , December 1996 , pp. 809 - 811
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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