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Staphylococcus haemolyticus disseminated among neonates with bacteremia in a neonatal intensive care unit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Jan 2014
Pereira Paula Marcele Afonso, Binatti Vanessa Batista, Sued Bruna Pinto Ribeiro, Ramos Juliana Nunes, Peixoto Renata Stavracakis, Simões Cláudio, de Castro Eduardo Almeida, Duarte José Luís Muniz Bandeira, Vieira Verônica Viana, Hirata Raphael, Santos Kátia Regina Netto, Mattos-Guaraldi Ana Luíza, Pereira José Augusto Adler
Abstract excerpt
Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus (ORSH) was found as the most prevalent (77.5%) species of coagulase-negative staphylococci associated with bacteremia in neonates making use of intravenous catheters in an intensive care unit of a Brazilian teaching hospital. Thirty-one blood isolates were confirmed as S. haemolyticus by sequencing of the 16S and clustered in 6 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types...
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