A Quantitative Assessment of Staphylococcus aureus Community Carriage in Yuma, Arizona.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disease control relies on pathogen identification and understanding reservoirs. Staphylococcus aureus infection prevention is based upon decades of research on colonization and infection, but diminishing returns from mitigation efforts suggest significant knowledge gaps. Existing knowledge and mitigation protocols are founded upon culture-based detection, with almost no information about pathogen quantities.

Methods

We used culture and a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay on samples from 3 body sites to characterize colonization more comprehensively than previous studies by describing both prevalence and pathogen quantity.

Results

We show a much higher overall prevalence (65.9%) than previously documented, with higher quantities and prevalence ass

SUBMITTER: Russakoff B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10132766 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature