{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]],"date-time":"2026-10-07T03:22:08Z","timestamp":1791343328829,"version":"4.3.1"},"reference-count":30,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,1]],"date-time":"2013-12-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1385856000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2013,12]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,7,16]],"date-time":"2013-07-16T06:30:23Z","timestamp":1373956223000},"page":"189-193","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":42,"title":["Prevalence of nasal carriage and diversity of Staphylococcus aureus among inpatients and hospital staff at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"1","author":[{"given":"Beverly","family":"Egyir","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luca","family":"Guardabassi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S\u00f8ren Saxmose","family":"Nielsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jesper","family":"Larsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kennedy Kwasi","family":"Addo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mercy Jemima","family":"Newman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anders Rhod","family":"Larsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"751","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(05)70295-4","article-title":"The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections","volume":"5","author":"Wertheim","year":"2005","journal-title":"Lancet Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.1590\/S1413-86702005000100010","article-title":"Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus introduced into intensive care units of a university hospital","volume":"9","author":"Cavalcanti","year":"2005","journal-title":"Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJM200101043440102","article-title":"Nasal carriage as a source of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Study Group","volume":"344","author":"von Eiff","year":"2001","journal-title":"New England Journal of Medicine"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1732","DOI":"10.1172\/JCI200423083","article-title":"Natural population dynamics and expansion of pathogenic clones of Staphylococcus aureus","volume":"114","author":"Melles","year":"2004","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Investigation"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0025","first-page":"e8","article-title":"Staphylococcus aureus screening and decolonization and orthopaedic surgical site infection\u2014a review of literature and single institution experience","volume":"8","author":"Hutzler","year":"2011","journal-title":"Journal of Orthopaedics"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3614","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.36.12.3614-3618.1998","article-title":"Surgical-site infections in a Sudanese university hospital","volume":"36","author":"Ahmed","year":"1998","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"186","DOI":"10.1016\/S1201-9712(97)90034-5","article-title":"Nasal carriage of multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus among health care workers and pediatric patients in two hospitals in Mogadishu, Somalia","volume":"1","author":"Nur","year":"1997","journal-title":"International Journal of Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"42","DOI":"10.1016\/j.actatropica.2012.06.005","article-title":"Epidemiology and population structure of Staphylococcus aureus in various population groups from a rural and semi urban area in Gabon, Central Africa","volume":"124","author":"Ulysse","year":"2012","journal-title":"Acta Tropica"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"160","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-0691.2010.03219.x","article-title":"Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages in five major African towns: emergence and spread of atypical clones","volume":"17","author":"Breurec","year":"2010","journal-title":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0050","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2975","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.00648-09","article-title":"Emergence of a community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain with a unique resistance profile in Southwest Nigeria","volume":"47","author":"Ghebremedhin","year":"2009","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0055","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2180-11-92","article-title":"Antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria","volume":"11","author":"Shittu","year":"2011","journal-title":"BMC Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0060","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5442","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.41.12.5442-5448.2003","article-title":"Typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a university hospital setting by using novel software for spa repeat determination and database management","volume":"41","author":"Harmsen","year":"2003","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0065","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3263","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.00836-07","article-title":"Investigation of reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from patients in Ireland and evaluation of agar screening methods for detection of heterogeneously glycopeptide-intermediate S. aureus","volume":"45","author":"Fitzgibbon","year":"2007","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0070","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"611","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-0691.2008.01995.x","article-title":"spa typing directly from a mecA, spa and pvl multiplex PCR assay\u2014a cost-effective improvement for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance","volume":"14","author":"Larsen","year":"2008","journal-title":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0075","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1008","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.38.3.1008-1015.2000","article-title":"Multilocus sequence typing for characterization of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible clones of Staphylococcus aureus","volume":"38","author":"Enright","year":"2000","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0080","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"264","DOI":"10.1128\/AAC.00165-06","article-title":"Combination of multiplex PCRs for staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type assignment: rapid identification system for mec, ccr, and major differences in junkyard regions","volume":"51","author":"Kondo","year":"2007","journal-title":"Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0085","series-title":"R: a language and environment for statistical computing","author":"R Development Core Team","year":"2012"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0090","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"505","DOI":"10.1128\/CMR.10.3.505","article-title":"Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: epidemiology, underlying mechanisms, and associated risks","volume":"10","author":"Kluytmans","year":"1997","journal-title":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0095","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"289","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(08)70097-5","article-title":"Health-care workers: source, vector, or victim of MRSA?","volume":"8","author":"Albrich","year":"2008","journal-title":"Lancet Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0100","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"125","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2334-6-125","article-title":"Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and characterization of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa","volume":"6","author":"Shittu","year":"2006","journal-title":"BMC Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0105","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"160","DOI":"10.1089\/1076629041310055","article-title":"An international multicenter study of antimicrobial resistance and typing of hospital Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 21 laboratories in 19 countries or states","volume":"10","author":"Zinn","year":"2004","journal-title":"Microbial Drug Resistance"},{"issue":"Suppl. 7","key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0110","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S487","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/cir164","article-title":"Characterization of global patterns and the genetics of fusidic acid resistance","volume":"52","author":"Farrell","year":"2011","journal-title":"Clinical Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0115","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"633","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-0691.2010.03320.x","article-title":"Epidemiology of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus lineages in five major African towns: high prevalence of Panton\u2013Valentine leukocidin genes","volume":"17","author":"Breurec","year":"2010","journal-title":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0120","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3962","DOI":"10.1128\/JB.01947-07","article-title":"The carriage population of Staphylococcus aureus from Mali is composed of a combination of pandemic clones and the divergent Panton\u2013Valentine leukocidin-positive genotype ST152","volume":"190","author":"Ruimy","year":"2008","journal-title":"Journal of Bacteriology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0125","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"227","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(10)70053-0","article-title":"Molecular epidemiology of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Europe","volume":"10","author":"Otter","year":"2010","journal-title":"Lancet Infectious Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0130","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2912","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.00692-08","article-title":"Changing patterns in frequency of recovery of five methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Portuguese hospitals: surveillance over a 16-year period","volume":"46","author":"Aires-de-Sousa","year":"2008","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0135","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"370","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-0691.2007.01941.x","article-title":"Genetic diversity of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in southern Stockholm, 2000\u20132005","volume":"14","author":"Fang","year":"2008","journal-title":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0140","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1150","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0001150","article-title":"Population structure of Staphylococcus aureus from remote African Babongo Pygmies","volume":"5","author":"Schaumburg","year":"2011","journal-title":"PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0145","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"215","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2180-11-215","article-title":"Evolution and diversity of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a geographical region","volume":"11","author":"Coombs","year":"2011","journal-title":"BMC Microbiology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006_bib0150","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.1089\/mdr.2008.0776","article-title":"Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage from children attending an outpatient clinic in Seoul, Korea","volume":"14","author":"Ko","year":"2008","journal-title":"Microbial Drug Resistance"}],"container-title":["Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S2213716513000635?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S2213716513000635?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,30]],"date-time":"2020-07-30T21:22:26Z","timestamp":1596144146000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2213716513000635"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2013,12]]},"references-count":30,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2013,12]]}},"alternative-id":["S2213716513000635"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jgar.2013.05.006","relation":{},"ISSN":["2213-7165"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2213-7165","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2013,12]]}}}