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Staphylococcus epidermidis with the icaA⁻/icaD⁻/IS256⁻ genotype and protein or protein/extracellular-DNA biofilm is frequent in ocular infections.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 2013
Juárez-Verdayes Marco A, Ramón-Peréz Miriam L, Flores-Páez Luis A, Camarillo-Márquez Omar, Zenteno Juan C, Jan-Roblero Janet, Cancino-Diaz Mario E, Cancino-Diaz Juan C
Abstract excerpt
In ocular infections (OIs) caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis, biofilms composed mainly of poly-N-acetylglucosamine (PNAG) have been widely studied, but PNAG-independent biofilms have not. Therefore, we searched for a relationship between the ica operon (involved in PNAG-biofilm) and the biochemical composition of biofilms in isolates from OI. Isolates from OI (n = 62), from healthy conjunctiva (HC; n = 45) and...
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