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Identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci other than Staphylococcus epidermidis by automated ribotyping.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2005
Carretto E, Barbarini D, Couto I, De Vitis D, Marone P, Verhoef J, De Lencastre H, Brisse S
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As routine identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci is problematic, the performance of automated ribotyping was evaluated for identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci other than Staphylococcus epidermidis. In total, 177 isolates were tested, comprising 149 isolates from blood samples, 15 isolates that were not identified by internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-PCR in a previous study, and 13...
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