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Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis in neonatal intensive care units.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Jan 2017
Soeorg Hiie, Huik Kristi, Parm Ülle, Ilmoja Mari-Liis, Metsvaht Tuuli, Lutsar Irja
Abstract excerpt
Late-onset sepsis (LOS) in preterm neonates is increasingly reported to be associated with gut-colonizing Staphylococcus epidermidis. We aimed to describe the molecular epidemiology of S. epidermidis colonizing the gut of neonates hospitalized in two neonatal intensive care units. S. epidermidis from rectal swabs were typed by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA), randomly chosen isolates of...
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