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Phenotypic and genotypic markers of Staphylococcus epidermidis virulence.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Apr 2001
Gelosia A, Baldassarri L, Deighton M, van Nguyen T
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OBJECTIVES: To analyze Staphylococcus epidermidis strains, previously tested for their virulence in a mouse model of subcutaneous infection, for various phenotypic traits (biofilm density, extracellular polysaccharide, slime-associated antigen (SAA)) and for the presence of the ica gene cluster, to determine which of these phenotypic and genotypic methods best correlates with virulence in the mouse model....
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