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Detection of slime production by means of an optimised Congo red agar plate test based on a colourimetric scale in Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates genotyped for ica locus.
Biomaterials - 1 Nov 2002
Arciola Carla Renata, Campoccia Davide, Gamberini Simonetta, Cervellati Marina, Donati Elena, Montanaro Lucio
Abstract excerpt
This investigation was conduced on a collection of 113 S. epidermidis strains isolated from biomaterial-associated infections. All strains were examined both for the presence of icaA and icaD genes responsible for slime synthesis by a PCR method and for the in vitro slime production ability by the Congo red agar (CRA) plate test. In the present study, the original CRA test was optimised adopting a six-colour...
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