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Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated from a teaching hospital in Shanghai, China.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Apr 2009
Li Min, Wang Xing, Gao Qian, Lu Yuan
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections, mostly associated with the use of medical devices in seriously ill or immunocompromised patients. Currently, the clonal characteristics of S. epidermidis in the hospital environment in China are unknown; neither is it known why these sequence types are easily disseminated in the hospital setting. In this study, multilocus sequence...
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