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Glycopeptide resistance among coagulase-negative staphylococci that cause bacteremia: epidemiological and clinical findings from a case-control study.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Nov 2001
Tacconelli E, Tumbarello M, Donati K G, Bettio M, Spanu T, Leone F, Sechi L A, Zanetti S, Fadda G, Cauda R
Abstract excerpt
A 1-year prospective case-control study (ratio of control patients to case patients, 3:1) was performed to assess the incidence, risk factors, and genotypic patterns of bacteremia caused by glycopeptide-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) and their correlation with hospital glycopeptide use. Among 535 subjects with CoNS bacteremia, 20 subjects had a glycopeptide-resistant strain (19 strains were...
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