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Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border

Asymptomatic carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is a major risk factor for subsequent clinical infection. Diminishing returns from mitigation efforts emphasize the need to better understand colonization, spread, and transmission of this opportunistic pathogen. While contact with other people presents...

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Autores principales: Barger, Steven D., Lininger, Monica R., Trotter, Robert T., Mbegbu, Mimi, Kyman, Shari, Tucker-Morgan, Kara, Wood, Colin, Coyne, Briana, Russakoff, Benjamin, Ceniceros, Kathya, Padilla, Cristina, Maltinsky, Sara, Pearson, Talima
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37053196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284400
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author Barger, Steven D.
Lininger, Monica R.
Trotter, Robert T.
Mbegbu, Mimi
Kyman, Shari
Tucker-Morgan, Kara
Wood, Colin
Coyne, Briana
Russakoff, Benjamin
Ceniceros, Kathya
Padilla, Cristina
Maltinsky, Sara
Pearson, Talima
author_facet Barger, Steven D.
Lininger, Monica R.
Trotter, Robert T.
Mbegbu, Mimi
Kyman, Shari
Tucker-Morgan, Kara
Wood, Colin
Coyne, Briana
Russakoff, Benjamin
Ceniceros, Kathya
Padilla, Cristina
Maltinsky, Sara
Pearson, Talima
author_sort Barger, Steven D.
collection PubMed
description Asymptomatic carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is a major risk factor for subsequent clinical infection. Diminishing returns from mitigation efforts emphasize the need to better understand colonization, spread, and transmission of this opportunistic pathogen. While contact with other people presents opportunities for pathogen exposure and transmission, diversity of social connections may be protective against pathogens such as the common cold. This study examined whether social relationship resources, including the amount and diversity of social contacts, are associated with S. aureus colonization. Participants were community members (N = 443; 68% Hispanic) in naturally occurring social groups in southwestern Arizona. Four types of social relationships and loneliness were assessed, and samples from the skin, nose and throat were obtained to ascertain S. aureus colonization. Overall S. aureus prevalence was 64.8%. Neither the amount nor the diversity of social contacts were associated with S. aureus colonization. The concurrent validity of the social relationship assessments was supported by their moderate intercorrelations and by their positive association with self-rated health. The results suggest that the association of social network diversity and susceptibility to the common cold does not extend to S. aureus colonization. Conversely, colonization prevalence was not higher among those with more social contacts. The latter pattern suggests that social transmission may be relatively infrequent or that more intimate forms of social interaction may drive transmission and colonization resulting in high community prevalence of S. aureus colonization. These data inform communicable disease control efforts.
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spelling pubmed-101014492023-04-14 Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border Barger, Steven D. Lininger, Monica R. Trotter, Robert T. Mbegbu, Mimi Kyman, Shari Tucker-Morgan, Kara Wood, Colin Coyne, Briana Russakoff, Benjamin Ceniceros, Kathya Padilla, Cristina Maltinsky, Sara Pearson, Talima PLoS One Research Article Asymptomatic carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is a major risk factor for subsequent clinical infection. Diminishing returns from mitigation efforts emphasize the need to better understand colonization, spread, and transmission of this opportunistic pathogen. While contact with other people presents opportunities for pathogen exposure and transmission, diversity of social connections may be protective against pathogens such as the common cold. This study examined whether social relationship resources, including the amount and diversity of social contacts, are associated with S. aureus colonization. Participants were community members (N = 443; 68% Hispanic) in naturally occurring social groups in southwestern Arizona. Four types of social relationships and loneliness were assessed, and samples from the skin, nose and throat were obtained to ascertain S. aureus colonization. Overall S. aureus prevalence was 64.8%. Neither the amount nor the diversity of social contacts were associated with S. aureus colonization. The concurrent validity of the social relationship assessments was supported by their moderate intercorrelations and by their positive association with self-rated health. The results suggest that the association of social network diversity and susceptibility to the common cold does not extend to S. aureus colonization. Conversely, colonization prevalence was not higher among those with more social contacts. The latter pattern suggests that social transmission may be relatively infrequent or that more intimate forms of social interaction may drive transmission and colonization resulting in high community prevalence of S. aureus colonization. These data inform communicable disease control efforts. Public Library of Science 2023-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10101449/ /pubmed/37053196 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284400 Text en © 2023 Barger et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Barger, Steven D.
Lininger, Monica R.
Trotter, Robert T.
Mbegbu, Mimi
Kyman, Shari
Tucker-Morgan, Kara
Wood, Colin
Coyne, Briana
Russakoff, Benjamin
Ceniceros, Kathya
Padilla, Cristina
Maltinsky, Sara
Pearson, Talima
Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border
title Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border
title_full Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border
title_fullStr Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border
title_full_unstemmed Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border
title_short Cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with Staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the US/Mexico border
title_sort cross-sectional study of the association of social relationship resources with staphylococcus aureus colonization in naturally occurring social groups along the us/mexico border
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37053196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284400
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