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[Phenotypic characteristics of coagulase-negative Staphylococci colonizing pleural drains in patients with lung cancer after thoracic surgery].
Medycyna doswiadczalna i mikrobiologia - 1 Jan 2003
Korona-Głowniak Izabela, Łoś Renata, Malm Anna, Rybojad Paweł, Furmanik Franciszek
Abstract excerpt
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) represent an important group of etiologic agents of infections associated with plastic biomaterials, e.g. drains. In the present paper 33 strains of CNS were characterized. All of them were isolated from fluid of pleural drains in patients with lung cancer a...
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