Nasal Carriage as a Source of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

By G. Pugliese, M. Favero. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2001

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Pathogenicity and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus (2021, background): “associations of colonization of different body sites with invasive infection [24,26,27].”
Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 genotype as a major cause of health care-associated blood stream infections. (2006, background): “in 5 years at a university hospital in Germany [42] to 2.”
Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings (2011, background): “Traditionally, these outbreaks are associated with ICUs, respiratory equipment, or water sources and have been difficult to contain because of the associated environmental contamination (101, 199, 331).”
Pathogenesis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. (2008, background): “In a study of bacteremia, blood isolates were identical to nasal isolates in 82% of patients [4].”
Nasal carriage as a source of agr-defective Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. (2012, methodology): “Two strain populations from a previous study were analyzed [5].”