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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 9, Pages 3101-3103Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00848-08
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All medical and high-risk surgical patients were screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization over 3.5 years. The sensitivities of nasal and rectal swabs were 68% and 62%, respectively. Naris and open-skin-site swabs detected 467 (74%) of 627 adult carriers identified. Rectal swabs detected an additional 160 (26%) carriers.
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