ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2008
Sensitivities of nasal and rectal swabs for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in an active surveillance program.
Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Quantifying the impact of extranasal testing of body sites for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization at the time of hospital or intensive care unit admission.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2013Pooled it
- Intervention to reduce transmission of resistant bacteria in intensive care.The New England journal of medicine · 2011Trial
- Staphylococcus aureus in atopic dermatitis: How a common bacterium exploits and drives disease.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2026Review
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an overview of basic and clinical research.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2019Review
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- Antibiotic susceptibility profile and prevalence ofInfection and drug resistance · 2019Article
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus multiple sites surveillance: a systemic review of the literature.Infection and drug resistance · 2016Review
- Identifying conditions for elimination and epidemic potential of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in nursing homes.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2016Article
- Staphylococcus aureus: Screening for Nasal Carriers in a Community Setting with Special Reference to MRSA.Scientifica · 2014Article
- Multidrug-resistant intestinal Staphylococcus aureus among self-medicated healthy adults in Amassoma, South-South, Nigeria.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2011Article
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization at different body sites: a prospective, quantitative analysis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2011Article
- Comparison of the BD GeneOhm methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) PCR assay to culture by use of BBL CHROMagar MRSA for detection of MRSA in nasal surveillance cultures from intensive care unit patients.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2010Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
All medical and high-risk surgical patients were screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization over 3.5 years. The sensitivities of nasal and rectal swabs were 68% and 62%, respectively. Naris and open-skin-site swabs detected 467 (74%) of 627 adult carriers identified. Rectal swabs detected an additional 160 (26%) carriers.
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