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Molecular analysis of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus isolates from blood cultures: prevalence of genotypic variation and polyclonal bacteremia.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Oct 2001
Sharma M, Riederer K, Johnson L B, Khatib R
Abstract excerpt
Fifty-seven coagulase-negative Staphylococcus isolates from 22 inpatients who had > or =2 blood cultures that were positive for Staphylococcus within 24 hours were analyzed to determine the frequency of polyclonal bacteremia. Patients were considered to have bacteremia (14 patients) or contamination of sample (8 patients) on the basis of clinical criteria. Nine colonies were randomly selected from each blood...
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