Study	Reason for exclusion
Critchley 2006	Not a trial.
Di Filippo 1999	No data about carriers. Author could not be contacted for additional information.
Klaus 2002	This was an abstract on the 5th European Peritoneal Dialysis Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, 4‐7 May 2002. Family members of CAPD patients with nasal carriage were treated with mupirocin or placebo. It is unclear whether patients with nasal carriage were treated with mupirocin and how many carriers in both treatment groups (mupirocin/placebo) developed an infection caused by S. aureus. This abstract has not resulted in a paper yet and the author could not be contacted for additional information.
Leigh 1993	Not health‐care related.
Martin 1999	No description of infections. Only data about eradication.
Mody 2003	Not health‐care related.
Niwa 1999	No data about carriers. Author could not be contacted for additional information.
Raz 1996	Not health‐care related.
Simor 2007	Combination of mupirocin treatment with oral antibiotics.
Sit 2007	No data about carriers. Author contacted for additional information.
Suzuki 2003	No data about carriers. Author contacted for additional information, but no reply was received.
Wasielewski 2003	Not a trial. Describes the results of the trial by Perl et al.