S. aureus Isolation
This study was carried out on 128 isolated S. aureus samples collected from nose of 53 (41.4%) healthcare workers as
healthy carriers as well as 75 (58.6%) from patients referred either to the teaching hospital or private medical diagnostic laboratory in Gorgan, north of Iran.
Clinical samples
were obtained from 24, 16, 17 and 18 cases of urine, wound,
blood and other specimens (including synovial fluid, sputum and throat culture), respectively