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What is "change in nasal carriage" or having your nasal carriage changed? i have staph or strep on my leg/cellulitus.
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Staph colonization: Many normal people carry staph aureus in their nares and on the surface of the skin. When one develops many episodes of skin infection, often due to mrsa, one method of management is to attempt to eliminate the nasal carriage state by using Mupirocin topically, and frequently combined with washing the skin only with chlorhexidine-containing soap. This works about 50% of the time.
Answered 6/30/2014
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