Nasal MRSA colonization of AIDS Patients cared for in a Brazilian university hospital.
Weekly culture surveillance was conducted over a 2-year period to determine the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients cared for in a day-care unit and in an infectious diseases unit. Analysis of genomic DNA profiles showed a predominant pattern in both units.
Padoveze
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Hospital Infection Control Committee, Unversidad Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Tresoldi
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AT
von Nowakonski
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A
Aoki
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Branchini
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ML
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002353:Carrier State; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D009666:Nose / Q000382:microbiology*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*