Nasal carriage of panton valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in healthy preschool children

Objective Determining the prevalence of nasal carriage of S. aureus, both sensitive to methicillin and resistant to it, in preschool children and evaluating the presence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes in the isolates.Methods This was a cross-sectional study in which cultures from anterior nare...