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. 2011 Mar 15;52(6):775-8.
doi: 10.1093/cid/cir026.

Staphylococcus aureus oropharyngeal carriage in a prison population

Caroline J Lee  1 , Sundary Sankaran, Dhritiman V Mukherjee, Zoltan L Apa, Cory A Hafer, Lester Wright, Elaine L Larson, Franklin D Lowy
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Staphylococcus aureus oropharyngeal carriage in a prison population

Caroline J Lee et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Throat carriage (42.7%) of Staphylococcus aureus exceeded nasal carriage (35.0%) in 2 New York prisons. Methicillin resistance, primarily due to USA300, was high at both sites; 25% of dually colonized inmates had different strains. Strategies to reduce S. aureus transmission will need to consider the high frequency of throat colonization.

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Figure 1.
Five representative samples from dually colonized inmates that were chosen to show the differences in the Staphylococcus aureus isolate pairs. The spa types indicate the assignment of strain type based on the Ridom software. The assignment of the different repeats (allelic profile) and their location for the spa types is also provided. The PFGE profiles of the discordant pair are also displayed along with the dendrogram displaying the degree of similarity of the 2 strains. Pairwise similarity scores for the isolates were calculated using the Dice coefficient.
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