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Genetic population structure of coagulase-negative staphylococci associated with carriage and disease in preterm infants.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Nov 2001
de Silva G D, Justice A, Wilkinson A R, Buttery J, Herbert M, Day N P, Peacock S J
Abstract excerpt
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a leading cause of sepsis in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting. To evaluate the hypothesis that isolates of CoNS associated with disease belong to hypervirulent clones, as opposed to being drawn randomly from the neonatal unit carriage flora, we conducted a prospective, case-controlled study in a busy NICU. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), we...
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