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Performance of phenotypic and genotypic methods to determine the clinical relevance of serial blood isolates of staphylococcus epidermidis in patients with septicemia.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2000
Sloos J H, Dijkshoorn L, Vogel L, van Boven C P
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Five typing methods, including biotyping (API ID32; BioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France), quantitative antibiogram typing based on actual zone sizes, plasmid typing, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis (with primer M13 and primer set ERIC-2-1026), and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), were compared with a previously performed method of DNA fingerprinting by AFLP (amplified fragment length...
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