Sentence examples for carriage screening from inspiring English sources

After nasal carriage screening in July 2005, intranasal mupirocin was administered to all neonates and was continued until hospital discharge, usually for 5 days.

Following the identification of the 3 index cases, 9 additional patients were identified within the following 2 weeks, 8 by carriage screening and 1 in a clinical specimen.

Antimicrobial drug susceptibility tests, PCR detection of ESBL genes, multilocus sequence typing using the Achtman scheme (http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Ecoli), and virulence-associated gene (VAG) carriage screening by PCR were performed on isolates as described (7 ).

It included VRE screening in stool and rectal samples from all patients hospitalized in the epidemic ward and carriage screening to detect unknown colonized patients (at hospital admission, weekly and at discharge).

In settings in which carriage screening is unattainable because of increased cost and workload, infection-control measures should focus on, at least, the timely checking of patients with these risk factors.

In January 2011, a thigh abscess developed on patient 7. On February 2 , 2011 we conducted a second round of S. aureus carriage screening and a 10-day course of S. aureus decontamination for 8 players, focusing on previous PVL-positive MSSA carriers and those with abscesses.

Finally, 284 (94.3%) of 301 patients were evaluated for A. baumannii carriage (screened population).

*Sero, serotype; TAC, TaqMan Array Card; IPD, invasive pneumococcal disease; S, staff; rec, recovered; neg, negative; P, patient; pos, positive; NS, no carriage screen; V, visitor; NT, nontypeable; Unk, unknown.

So should patients undergoing cataract surgery, who are at high risk for carriage, be screened for MRSA?

A total of 163 patients at risk for MRSA carriage were screened and MRSA prevalence was 3.1% (n = 5).

Patients at risk for MRSA carriage were screened, and cultures of the pharynx and sometimes of the skin were performed [ 81].