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.
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.
The chicks take up these microbes and are not colonized by harmful salmonella, an effect called competitive exclusion.
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.
Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on earth, probably not colonized by people until about 1,000 years ago.
It was probably not colonized by people until about 1,000 years ago, when a now-lost civilization erected giant stone sculptures, or moai, but then quickly collapsed.
The results showed that Ançã limestone had the highest primary bioreceptivity, followed by Lioz limestone, with Portalegre granite being weakly colonized or not colonized at all.
According to radiometric dates and the current state of research, the Balearic Islands were not colonized by humans prior to c. 4420/4220 cal yr BP.
