Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in international medical conference attendees.

CONCLUSIONS: As healthcare workers, a certain proportion of international medical conference attendees harbored MRSA in their nares, mostly local endemic community clones in each country, which has the potential of spread among attendees. PMID: 30181097 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30181097?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection - August 23, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Huang YC, Su LH, Wu TL, Lin TY Tags: J Microbiol Immunol Infect Source Type: research