%0 Journal Article
%T Colonizaci¨®n nasal bacteriana en poblaci¨®n sana de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile: £¿Existe portaci¨®n de Staphylococcus aureus meticilino resistente comunitario?
%A Platzer M
%A Liesbeth
%A Aran¨ªs J
%A Carolina
%A Beltr¨¢n M
%A Constanza
%A Fonseca A
%A Ximena
%A Garc¨ªa C
%A Patricia
%J Revista de otorrinolaringolog¨ªa y cirug¨ªa de cabeza y cuello
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0718-48162010000200003
%X introduction: doesn't exists agreement about normal nasal flora. recently it has emerged community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in people without known r¨ªsk factors, producing a global health scare. aim: look for normal nasal flora and test the presence o¨ª mrsa-com. material ana method: descriptive and prospective study, between october 2007 and october 2008, in healthy people. was taken a sampling from nasal secretion, incubation and bacterial identification by conventional methods. results: studied population, average age 37.6¡À15.8years, 55% t¨¦male and 37.1% active smoking. we obtained 73%> of positive cultures. we identified 18 bacterial species, the most common was staphylococcus coagulase-negative (53%) and staphylococcus aureus (22.7%). was detected only one case ofmrsa, and his genetic test was negative to prove community origin. discusi¨®n: there is a high rate of nasal carriage of staphylococcus coagulase-negative, like to that reponed by international literature. although the prevalence found for s aureus is the usual, there were no mrsa-com positive samples. this indicates that in chile there is still no spread of clones of mrsa-com.
%K nasal bacterial colonization
%K community methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-48162010000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en