Trials / Unknown
UnknownNCT00518076
Staphylococcus Aureus Carriers Students Nursing Oxacillin Resistant
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- —
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 17 Years – 30 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
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.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2006-09-01
- First posted
- 2007-08-20
- Last updated
- 2007-08-20
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00518076. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.