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Phenotypic and plasmid pattern analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis in bacterial keratitis.
Indian journal of ophthalmology - 1 Jan 2000
Nayak Niranjan, Satpathy Gita, Vajpayee Rasik B, Mrudula Srikantam
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BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus epidermidis, a commensal of the conjunctival sac has been incriminated as the commonest etiological agent of bacterial keratitis. However, the pathogenic potential of this commensal organism is not clearly known. AIM: To determine any phenotypic, molecular markers of S. epidermidis pathogenicity in bacterial keratitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 382 corneal ulcer isolates of S....
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