TY - JOUR AU - Lee, Grace M. AU - Huang, Susan S. AU - Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L. AU - Hinrichsen, Virginia L. AU - Pelton, Stephen I. AU - Kleinman, Ken AU - Hanage, William P. AU - Lipsitch, Marc AU - McAdam, Alexander J. AU - Finkelstein, Jonathan A. PY - 2009 DA - 2009/07/11 TI - Epidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureuscolonization in children in the post-PCV7 era JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 110 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has risen dramatically in the U.S., particularly among children. Although Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization has been inversely associated with S. aureus colonization in unvaccinated children, this and other risk factors for S. aureus carriage have not been assessed following widespread use of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). Our objectives were to (1) determine the prevalence of S. aureus and MRSA colonization in young children in the context of widespread use of PCV7; and (2) examine risk factors for S. aureus colonization in the post-PCV7 era, including the absence of vaccine-type S. pneumoniae colonization. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-110 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-9-110 ID - Lee2009 ER -