Person-to-Person Transmission ofStaphylococcus aureus

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THE number of Staphylococcus aureus organisms disseminated by different carriers and the extent to which they contaminate their environment and transmit infection to their contacts have been shown to vary widely. Nasal carriers with purulent skin lesions or respiratory viral infections have been described as being especially apt to transmit staphylococci1 , 2; yet carriers lacking these conditions have also been observed to cause considerable environmental contamination and to spread infection to contacts.3 Carriers whose nasal swabs yielded 105 or more Staph. aureus organisms in broth have been reported by White4 to disperse more of these organisms to the air and . . .