Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage among patients with diabetes at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
Ramzy B AnafoYacoba AtiaseFleischer C N KoteyNicholas T K D DayiePatience B Tetteh-QuarcooSamuel DuoduMary-Magdalene OseiKhalid J AlzahraniEric S DonkorPublished in: PloS one (2021)
The presence of diabetes predisposed the participants to S. aureus carriage by almost four folds, but not MRSA carriage. Colonization with CoNS was protective of S. aureus and MRSA carriage in the diabetes group. Finally, linezolid remains a good therapeutic agent for anti-MRSA therapy.