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Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in Poland in 1996 to 2004 that were deficient in species-specific proteins.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2006
Luczak-Kadlubowska Agnieszka, Krzyszton-Russjan Jolanta, Hryniewicz Waleria
Abstract excerpt
One hundred seventy Staphylococcus aureus isolates, collected in 1996 to 2004, were reidentified by phenotypic and genotypic methods. One hundred ten of these (65%) were confirmed, as previously denoted, to be clumping factor (CF)- or free coagulase-deficient S. aureus, based on their phenotype. Based on the CF or coagulase production, three groups of phenotypically deficient S. aureus isolates were...
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