Table 2.

Carrier rates of S. aureus and MRSA reported in different studies

Authors	Year of publication	Country	Age group included	Study setting	Sample size	S. aureus nasal carriage rate	MRSA carriage rate
Ramana KV et al [10]	2009	India	5-15 year	Schools	392	16%	19% of the S. aureus samples
Chatterjee SS et al [11]	2009	India	5-15 year	Schools	489	52.5% (PCR)	3.89%
Ciftci H et al [16]	2007	Turkey	4-6 years	Schools	1134	28.4%	0.3%
Ko KS et al [28]	2008	Korea	1-11 years	Hospital outpatients	296	32.1	18.9% of the S. aureus samples
Lamaro-Cardosa J et al [21]	2009	Brazil	2 months to 5 years	Day care centres	1,192	31.1%	1.2%
Lebon A et al [22]	2008	Netherlands	1.5 months and 14 months	Community based longitudinal study	443	12.9% at 1.5 months and 12.9% at 14 months	Not reported
Lee GM et al [23]	2009	USA (Massachusetts)	3 months to less than 7 years	Community	1,968	14.1 in 2003-4 and 14.6% in 2006-7	0.2% in 2003-4 and 0.9% in 2006-7
Lo WT et al [29]	2007	Taiwan	Less than 7 years	Day care centres	68	25%	13.2%
Oguzkaya-Artan M et al [30]	2008	Turkey	0-6 years	Primary care centre	200	18%	5.6%
Regev-Yochay G et al [20]	2009	Israel	0-40 months	Primary care centre	4,648	7.6%	Low (3 children)