1991
Efficacy of mupirocin nasal ointment in eradicating Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in chronic haemodialysis patients
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Publication
Journal of Hospital Infection , Volume 17 - Issue 2 p. 133- 137
Topical 2% mupirocin ointment eradicated chronic Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage immediately post-therapy in 17 (77%) of 22 haemodialysis patients. Mean time to recurrence was 3.8 weeks. Similar pre-therapy and post-therapy phage types occurred in 12 (71%) of 17 patients. Staphylococcus aureus infections developed in none of 17 successfully treated patients, two of five treatment failures (P = 0.05), and 10 of 46 untreated patients studied concurrently (P = 0.03).
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Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
L. Holton, D., E. Nicolle, L., Diley, D., & Bernstein, K. (1991). Efficacy of mupirocin nasal ointment in eradicating Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in chronic haemodialysis patients. Journal of Hospital Infection, 17(2), 133–137. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6980 |