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Sternal wound infection after heart operations in pediatric patients associated with nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus.
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery - 1 Sept 1996
Ruef C, Fanconi S, Nadal D
Abstract excerpt
A cluster of six pediatric cases of deep-seated Staphylococcus aureus infection after heart operations prompted us to perform molecular typing of the S. aureus isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. This revealed the presence of genotypically distinct isolates in four of the six patients. Isolates of two patients were genotypically identical. All patients carried S. aureus in the anterior nares. In each...
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