The role of broth enrichment in Staphylococcus aureus cultivation and transmission from the throat to newborn infants: results from the Swedish hygiene intervention and transmission of S. aureus study
Staphylococcus aureus is detected by direct plating, whereas incubation in enrichment broth prior to plating to increase the proportion of positive samples has not been fully evaluated. S. aureus throat colonization has been suggested to be more common than colonization of the anterior nares, but no...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3825640/ |