Staphylococcus aureus Colonization Among Household Contacts of Patients With Skin Infections: Risk Factors, Strain Discordance, and Complex Ecology

• Published in: Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 54; no. 11; pp. 1523 - 1535
• Main Authors: Miller, Loren G., Eells, Samantha J., Taylor, Alexis R., David, Michael Z., Ortiz, Nancy, Zychowski, Diana, Kumar, Neha, Cruz, Denise, Boyle-Vavra, Susan, Daum, Robert S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.06.2012
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; and Commentaries; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES; Bacterial diseases; Biological and medical sciences; Carrier State - epidemiology; Carrier State - microbiology; Chicago - epidemiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Cleaning; Colonization; Cross-Sectional Studies; Decolonization; Disease transmission; Drug resistance; Ecology; Epidemiology; Family Characteristics; Family Health; Female; Genetics; Households; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infant; Infection; Infections; Infectious diseases; Los Angeles - epidemiology; Male; Medical genetics; Medical sciences; Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - classification; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification; Microbial colonization; Middle Aged; Molecular Typing; Nose - microbiology; Oropharynx - microbiology; Predisposing factors; Risk Factors; Skin; Skin diseases; Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections; Staphylococcal Skin Infections - epidemiology; Staphylococcal Skin Infections - microbiology; Staphylococcal Skin Infections - transmission; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus infections; Chicago; Los Angeles; United States > US; USA, Illinois, Chicago; USA; USA, California, Los Angeles; Infection; Discordance; Risk factor; Bacteriosis; Bacteria; Micrococcales; Micrococcaceae; Ecology; Skin; Staphylococcal infection; Colonization; Staphylococcus aureus

Background. The USA300 methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) genetic background has rapidly emerged as the predominant cause of community-associated S. aureus infections in the U.S. However, epidemiologic characteristics of S. aureus household transmission are poorly understood. Methods...