Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization of house officers.
We performed a prospective prevalence survey of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage in the nares of 50 medical and 50 surgical house officers. None of the 50 internal medicine house officers and 5 of the 50 general surgery house officers had MRSA nares colonization (P = .03). None of the MRSA isolates recovered from the surgical house officers were identical.
Barbosa
Anna A
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Departments of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, USA.
Chapin
Kim
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Mermel
Leonard A
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