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Relationship of Staphylococcal Colonization to Infection

NCT00766259 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Last updated 2024-05-03

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Summary

Inpatients will be prospectively have nares screened and MRSA strains collected. All clinical MRSA strains of patients will also be prospectively collected. A sensitive strain discrimination test of spa typing will be used to determine if the strains are related. Hypotheses are

1. Strain colonization durations vary and may be very short in days to weeks.
2. Colonizing strains rarely infect 3) Both 1 and 2 may be affected by the patient's co-morbidity.

Conditions

  • MRSA Infection

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Veterans BioMedical Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-07-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2012-06-30

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