title: Staphylococcal pneumonia in ventilated patients: a twelve-month review of cases in an intensive care unit.
abstract: We reviewed staphylococcal lower respiratory tract infections in our intensive care unit over a 12-month period. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from tracheal aspirates more commonly in patients with intracranial trauma (P < 0.001), between one and six days (mean = 3) after admission to the intensive care unit. Bacteriophage typing of all S. aureus lower respiratory tract isolates from the 17 patients with head injury did not provide evidence for a common external source of infection or patient-to-patient transmission.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Inglis
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Sproat
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Hawkey
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011023:Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification