Control of Nasal-Staphylococcal-Carrier States

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Abstract
THE increasing incidence of staphylococcal infections in hospitals has resulted in numerous studies of the various aspects contributing to the problem and the identification of some of the sources of such infections. The nasal-carrier state of hospital personnel, hospital patients and the general population has been extensively reported.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The mechanisms by which such states contaminate the environment have been described by Hare and Thomas.8 They demonstrated that the danger is only partly created by direct emission of bacteria from the nose; the major pathway apparently is the indirect transmission of the organisms from the nose of the carrier to various . . .