Abstract
Sources of Staphylococcus aureus have been studied in 124 surgical patients of whom 20 (16%) developed wound sepsis. Staph. aureus was isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract only once, but 26 of 113 (23%) patients were found to be nasal carriers. Twenty-seven per cent of carriers developed infections whereas only 10% of non-carriers became infected. Phage typing of strains causing wound infections showed that they originated from multiple and mostly unidentified sources. Three of seven infections in nasal carriers were with organisms of the same phage type as those found in the nose. These results indicate that staphylococci of nasal origin are not the major source of infected surgical wounds.
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