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Staphylococcus aureus is a commonly encountered organism in day-to-day living. However, the epidemiology is complicated by three different patterns of carriage. Up to 60% of the population hosts the organism at any one time and, while ∼20% are considered “persistent carriers” due to their status of being continuous hosts of the same strain, a further 20% never host S. aureus and so are considered non-carriers [1]. S. aureus is commonly encountered in childhood with nasopharyngeal carriage among healthy children as high as 48% in the USA [2] and 36% in the Netherlands [3]. S. aureus carriage varies markedly by occupation, as do the proportions of those who carry antibiotic resistant strains (methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)) [1].
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