DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i10.031

Pages: 3370-3374

Methicillin resistance rates of S.aureus vary considerably between countries. Patients who have had contact with healthcare facilities such as hospital may be colonized in nose with healthcare –associated (HA) MRSA. The hospital reservoir pose a serious challenge. It causes diseases such as bacteraemia and infective endocarditis that tend to be more multiresistant. So cross sectional study was carried out to determine the incidence of nasal carriers of mupirocin sensitive and mupirocin resistant (both low- and high-level resistance) MRSA strains amongst the hospital staff in a tertiary care hospital of Haryana. Out of total 46 subjects, 44 swabs showed a growth of S.aureus. and 23 were MRSA carriers.