Staphylococcus Aureus Carriers Students Nursing Oxacillin Resistant

University of Sao Paulo

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Staphylococcal Infections

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00518076

OF.262/2006-CEP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen bacteria actuating as an agent of a wide variety of infections, such as the superficials to the disseminates ones, its commonly find into hospitals ambient, assailing mainly immunosupress patients. Around 30% to 50% of people carries this agent in their nasal bone as part of their normal flora, occuring larger in hospitals workers. The S. aureus is also known for its high capacity of developing resistance to various antibiotic. Facing these considerations, the importance of nursing precaution and the infections control inside hospitals ambient, the purpose of this present study aimed to verify the rates of carriers of S. aureus in nursing students and the connection with the hospitals time involvement during graduation in the Faculty de Medicine de Botucatu - UNESP, embracing the 4 years of graduation college.

Sex

All

Ages

17 to 30 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria