Cavallero F, Taborelli G, Sbaffi A, Canepa C
Boll Ist Sieroter Milan. 1979 Sep 30;58(4):295-9.
150 healthy individuals and 162 tonsillopathic patients were investigated for the presence of Staphylococcus species in the upper respiratory tract. S. epidermidis was isolated from the throat in a very small percentage of all the people examined. A great number of healthy individuals (40%) and of patients (70%) were colonized by S. aureus either in the nose or in the throat; 30% of the carriers harboured S. aureus exclusively in the tonsils and in the pharynx.
