Specifically, we compared the prevalence of persistent S. aureus colonization of the anterior nares between siblings of adults who were colonized with persistent S. aureus colonization and siblings of adults who were not colonized.
Individual unknown factors such as composition of the endogeneous flora may explain why some patients were not colonized, because no statistical link was observed between Lcr35 colonization and antibiotic treatment.
In one prospective study [ 6], the relative risk for developing MRSA infection in patients who had MRSA colonization was higher than that in patients who were not colonized with Staphylococcus aureus.
Statistically significant enrichment of particular microbial groups (e.g. S. epidermidis) in individuals who are not colonized by S. aureus suggests that specific bacterial products interfere with colonization, either by competition for local resources, by antibacterial activity, or by competitive attachment to mucosal sites.
Surfaces were more likely to be positive in rooms with a VRE-colonized patient (24%), compared with rooms in which patient colonization status was unknown (13%, P=.13) or the patient was not colonized (0%, P=.002).
Four studies reported mortality data in patients with A. baumannii acquisition (colonization or infection with A. baumannii), in comparison with controls who were not colonized nor infected with A. baumannii (Table 1) [ 16, 17, 20, 21].
It was not colonized under any public encouragement; each planter labored for himself.
They found that plants colonized by the ants received more nitrogen than those that are not colonized.
After their European discovery by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1521), the Marianas were visited frequently but were not colonized until 1668.
It was claimed for France in 1603 by Samuel de Champlain, the first governor of French Canada (who called it Île Saint-Jean), but it was not colonized until 1720, when 300 settlers from France established Port la Joie at the entrance to the harbour of Charlottetown.
