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Clinical Features, Outcomes, and Molecular Characteristics of Community- and Health Care-Associated Staphylococcus lugdunensis Infections.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2016
Yeh Chun-Fu, Chang Shih-Cheng, Cheng Chun-Wen, Lin Jung-Fu, Liu Tsui-Ping, Lu Jang-Jih
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a major cause of aggressive endocarditis, but it is also responsible for a broad spectrum of infections. The differences in clinical and molecular characteristics between community-associated (CA) and health care-associated (HA) S. lugdunensis infections have remained unclear. We performed a retrospective study of S. lugdunensis infections between 2003 and 2014 to compare the...
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