Nasal carriage of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in medical students

Contamination of public transports by Staphylococcus aureus and its carriage by biomedical students: point-prevalence, related risk factors and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant strains

“…10,34,35 Although Portugal has one of the highest prevalences of invasive MRSA in Europe, 9 it has been reported to be below 1% among healthy populations in the community. 36,37 Interestingly, the single MRSA carrier among students carried an EMRSA-15 isolate with the same spa type t032 found in public transports and in the nosocomial setting.…”

Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Case Studies

“…To date, strains ST22 and ST772 have been identified as major CA-MRSA clones among infectious isolates (Table 1). The MRSA colonization prevalence also appears to be low with the exception of one investigation of medical students of whom 24 % were colonized [92]. In Pakistan, both, CA- and HA-MRSA strains were found to overlap with ST239-II/III and ST8-IV predominating (Table 1).…”

An evaluation of the hand and nasal flora of Turkish nursing students after clinical practice

“…The source of Staphylococcus in humans is particularly the humans themselves. The most common method of contagion by (Ç alangu 1997, Gü l et al 2004, Yıldız Zeyrek et al 2004, Naz et al 2006, Baliga et al 2008. This study evaluated the hand and nasal flora of the student nurses who spend the majority of their training time in clinical practice before and after the clinical practice and compared the results in the light of the literature information.…”