Boelaert J R, Van Landuyt H W, Gordts B Z, De Baere Y A, Messer S A, Herwaldt L A
Unit of Renal and Infectious Diseases, Algemeen Ziekenhuis St Jan, Brugge, Belgium.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1996 Dec;17(12):809-11. doi: 10.1086/647241.
Fifteen of 20 hemodialysis patients who carried Staphylococcus aureus in their nares also carried the organism on their hands; 2 of 20 patients who did not carry S aureus in their nares carried S aureus on their hands (P < .001). Eighty-seven percent of patients who carried S aureus in their nares and on their hands carried the same strain at both sites. Intranasal mupirocin eliminated S aureus from both sites.
