title: Does chronic hepatitis B increase Staphylococcus nasal carriage?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
  
  
  METHODS
  The prevalence of S. aureus nasal carriage was determined in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection and compared with the prevalence of S. aureus nasal carriage among control patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Between February 2003 and November 2004, 70 chronic hepatitis B patients and 70 control patients were enrolled in the study. S. aureus nasal carriage was shown in 15 (12%) of the patients with chronic hepatitis B and 13 (19%) of the control group (P > 0.05). There was no difference in nasal colonization between the cases and controls when analysed by age, sex, frequency of skin infection, prior use of antibiotics and hospital admission in the preceding six months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of our study show that chronic hepatitis B virus infection is not associated with S. aureus nasal carriage.
authors: Izzet Baysal University, Izzet Baysal Medical Faculty, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Bolu, Turkey
authors: Oguz
authors: O
authors: Karbay
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Tamer
authors: Idris
authors: I
authors: Sahin
authors: Harika
authors: H
authors: Celebi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009296:Nasal Cavity / Q000382:microbiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*