A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study on the Prevalence and Risk Factors for Nasal Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in Patients Admitted to Children's Hospitals in Switzerland
Datta, Florence ; Erb, Thomas ; Heininger, Ulrich ; Gervaix, Alain ; Schaad, Urs B. ; Berger, Christoph ; Vaudaux, Bernard ; Aebi, Christoph ; Hitzler, Michael ; Kind, Christian ; Gnehm, Hanspeter E. ; Frei, Reno
In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008, vol. 47, no. 7, p. 923-926
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- The rate of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and associated risk factors were determined in a cross-sectional study involving Swiss children's hospitals. S. aureus was isolated in 562 of 1363 cases. In a stepwise multivariate analysis, the variables age, duration of antibiotic use, and hospitalization of a household member were independently associated with carriage of S. aureus