Throat Swabs Are Necessary to Reliably Detect Carriers of Staphylococcus aureus
Mertz, Dominik ; Frei, Reno ; Jaussi, Barbara ; Tietz, Andreas ; Stebler, Christine ; Flückiger, Ursula ; Widmer, Andreas F.
In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 475-477
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- The anterior nares are the most important screening site of colonization with Staphylococcus aureus. We screened 2966 individuals for S. aureus carriage with swabs of both nares and throat. A total of 37.1% of persons were nasal carriers, and 12.8% were solely throat carriers. Screening of throat swabs significantly increases the sensitivity of detection among carriers by 25.7%