Rapid discrimination of Staphylococcus epidermidis genotypes in a routine clinical microbiological laboratory using single nucleotide polymorphisms in housekeeping genes.

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PURPOSE: Staphylococcus epidermidis colonies often display several morphologies and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns when cultured from device-related infections, and may represent one or multiple genotypes. Genotyping may be helpful in the clinical interpretation, but is time consuming and expensive. We wanted to establish a method for rapid discrimination of S. epidermidis genotypes for use in a routine...

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