Insights into nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in an urban and a rural community in Ghana

Beverly Egyir; Luca Guardabassi; Joseph Esson; Søren Saxmose Nielsen; Mercy Jemima Newman; Kennedy Kwasi Addo; Anders Rhod Larsen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096119

Insights into nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in an urban and a rural community in Ghana

Beverly Egyir, Luca Guardabassi, Joseph Esson, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Mercy Jemima Newman, Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Anders Rhod Larsen

Veterinary Clinical Microbiology

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Abstract

The epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in the community in Ghana was never investigated prior to this study. The aims of the study were: i) to assess prevalence of nasal S. aureus carriage in Ghanaian people living in an urban and a rural area, and ii) to identify phenotypic and genotypic traits of strains isolated from the two communities. Nasal swabs were collected from healthy individuals living in an urban community situated in the suburb of the capital city, Accra (n = 353) and in a rural community situated in the Dangme-West district (n = 234). The overall prevalence of nasal carriage was 21% with a significantly higher prevalence in the urban (28%) than in the rural community (11%) (p

Original language	English
Article number	e96119
Journal	PLOS ONE
Volume	9
Issue number	4
Number of pages	7
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096119
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Insights into nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in an urban and a rural community in Ghana. / Egyir, Beverly; Guardabassi, Luca; Esson, Joseph; Nielsen, Søren Saxmose; Newman, Mercy Jemima; Addo, Kennedy Kwasi; Larsen, Anders Rhod.

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