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Nasal MRSA Colonization of AIDS Patients Cared for in a Brazilian University Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Maria Clara Padoveze ,
Antonia Teresinha Tresoldi ,
Angela vonNowakonski ,
Francisco Hideo Aoki  and
Maria Luiza Moretti Branchini
Maria Clara Padoveze*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infection Control Committee, the Universidad Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Antonia Teresinha Tresoldi
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, the Universidad Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Angela vonNowakonski
Affiliation:
Microbiology Service, the Universidad Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Francisco Hideo Aoki
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Division, the Universidad Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Luiza Moretti Branchini
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Division, the Universidad Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
*
Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Aristides Lobo, 242, Cidade Universitdria, CEP: 13080460-Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Abstract

Weekly culture surveillance was conducted over a 2-year period to determine the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients cared for in a day-care unit and in an infectious diseases unit. Analysis of genomic DNA profiles showed a predominant pattern in both units.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 12 , December 2001 , pp. 783 - 785
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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