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  • Clonal structure of Staphylococcus aureus colonizing children with sickle cell anaemia and healthy controls

  • F. SCHAUMBURG, B. BIALLAS, A. S. ALABI, M. P. GROBUSCH, E. N. FEUGAP, B. LELL, A. MELLMANN, G. PETERS, P. G. KREMSNER, K. BECKER, A. A. ADEGNIKA
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    Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 141 / Issue 8 / August 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 October 2012, pp. 1717-1720
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  • Children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) might carry hospital-associated bacterial lineages due to frequent hospital stays and antibiotic treatments. In this study we compared Staphylococcus aureus from SCA patients (n = 73) and healthy children (n = 143) in a cross-sectional study in Gabon. S. aureus carriage did not differ between children with SCA (n = 34, 46·6%) and controls matched for age, residence and sex (n = 67, 46·9%). Both groups shared similar S. aureus genotypes. This finding points towards a transmission of S. aureus between both groups in the community. We conclude that resistance rates from population-based studies with healthy participants could therefore also be used to guide treatment and prophylaxis of endogenous infections in children with SCA despite a different selection pressure.