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Risk factors of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among health care staff in a teaching hospital in central Saudi Arabia

Ohoud S. Al-Humaidan, Talat A. El-Kersh and Raid A. Al-Akeel
Saudi Medical Journal September 2015, 36 (9) 1084-1090; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.9.12460
Ohoud S. Al-Humaidan
From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
BSc, MSc
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Talat A. El-Kersh
From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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Raid A. Al-Akeel
From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 36 no. 9 1084-1090
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.9.12460
PubMed 
26318466

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 26, 2015
  • Accepted August 3, 2015
  • Published online September 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. Ohoud S. Al-Humaidan, BSc, MSc⇑,
  2. Talat A. El-Kersh, MSc, PhD and
  3. Raid A. Al-Akeel, MSc, PhD
  1. From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Ms. Ohoud S. Al-Humaidan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, PO Box 10219, Riyadh 11433, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: oalhumaidan{at}ksu.edu.sa
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