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High prevalence of Staphylococcus haemolyticus and Staphylococcus saprophyticus in environmental samples of a Tunisian hospital.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Jun 2016
Dziri Raoudha, Klibi Naouel, Lozano Carmen, Ben Said Leila, Bellaaj Ridha, Tenorio Carmen, Boudabous Abdellatif, Ben Slama Karim, Torres Carmen
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate of detection of coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) in environmental samples of 17 services in a Tunisian hospital, determining the antimicrobial resistance phenotypes and genotypes of recovered isolates. To our knowledge, this is the first study that determines the prevalence of CoNS with correlation of antibiotic resistance in the hospital environment in...
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