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Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with cystic fibrosis.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jun 1994
Branger C, Fournier J M, Loulergue J, Bouvet A, Goullet P, Boutonnier A, de Gialluly C, Couetdic G, Chomarat M, Jaffar-Banjee M C
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Seven hundred and thirty-four isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, recovered from the sputum of 238 cystic fibrosis patients in six French hospitals, were characterized by esterase electrophoretic typing, capsular polysaccharide serotyping and phage typing and tested against 14 antibiotics for sensitivity. Thirty-four esterase electrophoretic types were found with a genotypic diversity coefficient of 0.91. Five...
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