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Determining the Significance of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Isolated From Blood Cultures at a Community Hospital A Role for Species and Strain Identification
1 Mar 2000
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OBJECTIVES: To determine the degree to which species identification or strain relatedness assessment of successive blood culture isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) may improve the clinical diagnosis of bloodstream infection (BSI). SETTING: 400-bed community hospital. DESIGN: Prospective laboratory survey during which all CNS blood culture isolates obtained between mid-August 1996 and mid-February...
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