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Polyclonal Staphylococcal endocarditis caused by genetic variability.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 2000
Van Eldere J, Peetermans W E, Struelens M, Deplano A, Bobbaers H
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Cultures of blood obtained from a patient with Staphylococcus epidermidis prosthetic valve endocarditis yielded 15 strains of S. epidermidis. Genome macrorestriction and amplified fragment-length polymorphism analyses of these strains showed that they belonged to 4 different, very closely related clones, suggesting that they were the result of genetic variability of an infecting strain during the infectious...
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