Staph Can Lurk Deep Within Nose
The results of the study will be published Dec. 11 in Cell Host & Microbe. David Relman, MD, the Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor and a teacher of medication and of immunology and microbiology. Relman, who’s also chief of the infectious disease section at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto HEALTHCARE System, was the study’s senior author.
The lead author was Miling Yan, PhD, a graduate student in Relman’s laboratory at the time the tests were performed. Relman said. The bug abounds on your skin, with a special affinity for the groin and armpits. The vast majority of the right time, however, it can little if any harm. Thorough and tiresome regimens for getting rid of a relatively. Aureus residing on people’s skin or in their nose’s do exist, but it’s typically a matter of weeks or months prior to the bacteria repopulate those who find themselves susceptible. The new research offers a possible reason for this is actually the case.
The scientists recruited 12 healthy subjects and brought them to a Stanford ear, throat, and nose medical center run by research co-author Peter Hwang, MD, professor of otolaryngology. Employing special instrumentation so they can guide small swabs to exact locations within the nose, they took examples from three specific areas. The first location-and far and away the most well-studied because it’s a lot more accessible-was the anterior naris, a relatively dry skin-like patch of tissue located close to the nostril. The second was the middle meatus-a warmer, wetter, mucus-producing … Read the rest