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Characterization of Inflammatory Responses During Intranasal Colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae
Published on: January 17, 2014
Persistent Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in ambulatory human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in
Adesola Olufunmilayo Olalekan1, Samuel Sunday Taiwo2, Stella Ifeanyi Smith3
1Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria; Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Abstract:
This longitudinal study on Staphylococcus aureus colonization in Nigerian human immunodeficiency virus patients (n = 187) found a trend towards a higher proportion of persistent S. aureus carriage in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection, low CD4+ cell counts, and a predominance of isolates belonging to ST8/spa-CC064 in persistent carriers.
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