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Clonal analysis of Staphylococcus hominis strains isolated from hospitalized patients.
Polish journal of microbiology - 1 Jan 2014
Szczuka Ewa, Trawczyński Krzysztof, Kaznowski Adam
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus hominis is a part of normal skin flora, but it is also a cause of nosocomial infections. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic relatedness of 62 strains of S. hominis obtained from hospitalised patients during an 11-year period. For the discrimination of these clinical strains we used repetitive sequence-based PCR method (BOX-PCR) and multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat...
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