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To the Editor: The study conducted by von Eiff and colleagues (Jan. 4 issue)¹ might give readers the impression that a bacterial nose swab was merely a blind sample from the vestibulum nasi. The authors do not provide a precise description of the method used to obtain bacterial swabs from the nose. A colleague and I found that the bacterial spectrum differs considerably between the vestibulum nasi and the cavitas nasi; for example, Staphylococcus aureus was present in the cavitas nasi but not in the vestibulum nasi in 22 percent of 412 patients (P=0.001).² This finding indicates that disinfection of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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