Nasal carriage of S. aureus is now considered a well defined risk factor for subsequent infection in various groups of patients. Local antibiotic treatment with mupirocin ointment is often used to ...

Surgical site infections in orthopedic surgery: the effect of mupirocin nasal ointment in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study. Clin Infect Dis 2002; 35: 353–8. MEDLINE 11.

‘Could a prescription cream help with #lupus ... to treat their skin lesions with mupirocin or with an inactive control, petrolatum jelly. Samples from the nose and lesional skin were used ...

To improve treatment adherence, a pharmacy-driven program was established to create a collaborative agreement allowing pharmacists to order mupirocin if the nasal swab tested positive for S.

The study randomly selected systemic lupus erythematosus patients currently experiencing cutaneous lupus erythematosus flares to treat their skin lesions with mupirocin or with an inactive control ...