{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,12]],"date-time":"2026-03-12T02:43:47Z","timestamp":1773283427037,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"2","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2000,6,1]],"date-time":"2000-06-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":959817600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Microbial Drug Resistance"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2000,6]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    Surveillance in two medium-size (250-300 beds) hospitals located in the most populated islands of Cape Verde was undertaken in July 1997 in order to obtain data concerning nasal carriage of staphylococci.\n         Nasal swabs (172) taken from inpatients and health care workers (HCW) from different internment services yielded 68\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and 105 coagulase-negative staphylococcal (CNS) isolates,\n         demonstrating extensive colonization of both inpatients and HCW by\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (carriage rate 41%) and CNS (carriage rate 65%). The most frequent CNS species were\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. haemolyticus<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n         Three species -\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. sciuri<\/jats:italic>\n                    - were recovered from wound swabs. The antibiotic susceptibility profiles of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and CNS differed sharply: all\n         68\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    were resistant to penicillin but were fully susceptible to oxacillin as well as the other antimicrobial agents tested - gentamicin; erythromycin, except for three strains; ciprofloxacin;\n         sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, except for two strains; vancomycin; and amoxicillin\/clavulanate. In contrast, most (91\/105) of CNS were resistant to both penicillin and oxacillin, and a variable but substantial\n         proportion of CNS isolates also carried multiresistant traits to gentamicin, erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, and amoxicillin\/clavulanate. The analysis by PFGE of the methicillin-susceptible\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (MSSA) and the methicillin-resistant\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                    (MRSE) strains provided evidence for extensive cross-infection and cross-colonization from HCW to patients.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1089\/107662900419447","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,26]],"date-time":"2002-07-26T18:06:55Z","timestamp":1027706815000},"page":"133-141","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Epidemiological Study of Staphylococcal Colonization and Cross-Infection in Two West African Hospitals"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"M. 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L.","family":"Ferro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hospital de S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9, Lisbon, Portugal."}]},{"given":"H.","family":"de Lencastre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidade de Gen\u00e9tica Molecular, Instituto de Tecnologia Qu\u00edmica e Biol\u00f3gica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB\/UNL), Oeiras, Portugal and Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York."}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2000,6]]},"container-title":["Microbial Drug Resistance"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1089\/107662900419447","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1089\/107662900419447","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,10]],"date-time":"2026-02-10T18:13:46Z","timestamp":1770747226000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1089\/107662900419447"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2000,6]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2000,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1089\/107662900419447"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/107662900419447","relation":{},"ISSN":["1076-6294","1931-8448"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1076-6294","type":"print"},{"value":"1931-8448","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2000,6]]}}}