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Multicenter Study
. 2008 Oct 1;47(7):923-6.
doi: 10.1086/591700.

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

Florence Datta  1 , Thomas Erb, Ulrich Heininger, Alain Gervaix, Urs B Schaad, Christoph Berger, Bernard Vaudaux, Christoph Aebi, Michael Hitzler, Christian Kind, Hanspeter E Gnehm, Reno Frei; Pediatric Infectious Disease Group Switzerland Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Study Group
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Multicenter Study

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

Florence Datta et al. Clin Infect Dis. .
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Abstract

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.

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