Nasal Carriage of Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Among Paramedical Students at Pokhara University, Nepal
Alina Sharma, Mandira Chhusyabaga, Bhawana Baral, Binita Dhakal, Sabina Bhurtyal, Suresh Jaiswal, Suraiya Saleem · 2025
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Sharma and co-authors gauged how often health-care students at Pokhara University in Nepal carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the nose. They took nasal swabs from 246 students and tested the bacteria found for antibiotic resistance with standard disc diffusion methods.
Of 217 Staphylococcus aureus isolates, 80 were methicillin-resistant, giving a nasal carriage rate of about a third. Rates were higher in males and in students over 30. Over half resisted many drugs, but vancomycin still worked on all, and about a sixth showed clindamycin response that can switch on. The team warns that such carriage can seed hospital illness.
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| CREATOR | Alina Sharma, Mandira Chhusyabaga, Bhawana Baral, Binita Dhakal, Sabina Bhurtyal, Suresh Jaiswal, Suraiya Saleem |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |