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Phenotypic and genomic variation among Staphylococcus epidermidis strains infecting joint prostheses.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1999
Galdbart J O, Morvan A, Desplaces N, el Solh N
Abstract excerpt
We studied the SmaI and SstII macrorestriction patterns of 54 Staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated from 14 patients infected following the implantation of joint prostheses. Multiple strains from pus and infected tissue specimens of each patient were selected on the basis of different colony morphologies and drug resistance patterns. The same criteria were used to select 23 S. epidermidis strains from hand...
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