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The significance of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus as risk factor for human skin infections.
FEMS microbiology letters - 7 Aug 2001
Toshkova K, Annemüller C, Akineden O, Lämmler C
Abstract excerpt
The present study was designed to investigate the significance and the relationship between nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and staphylococcal skin infections. Thirty-one S. aureus strains, isolated from 12 patients with chronic and recurrent skin infections, one patient with septicemia and one patient with otitis externa were studied. The staphylococcal strains were isolated from the site of infection...
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