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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization of House Officers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anna A. Barbosa ,
Kim Chapin  and
Leonard A. Mermel
Anna A. Barbosa
Affiliation:
Rhode Island Hospital, and, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Kim Chapin
Affiliation:
Rhode Island Hospital, and, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Leonard A. Mermel*
Affiliation:
Rhode Island Hospital, and, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St., Providence, RI 02903 (lmermel@lifespan.org)
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Abstract

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.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 9 , September 2009 , pp. 913 - 914
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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