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Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among medical students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Shadi A. Zakai
Saudi Medical Journal July 2015, 36 (7) 807-812; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.7.11609
Shadi A. Zakai
From the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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vol. 36 no. 7 807-812
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.7.11609
PubMed 
26108584

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 22, 2015
  • Accepted May 17, 2015
  • Published online July 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Shadi A. Zakai, MSc, PhD⇑
  1. From the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Shadi A. Zakai, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: szakai{at}kau.edu.sa
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