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Association of Biofilm Production of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci with Expression of a Specific Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin
1 Oct 1996
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An association between adherent biofilm production on tissue culture plates and expression of a specific polysaccharide intercellular adhesion (PIA), which is functionally involved in cell clustering, was investigated for 179 Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates. Of the S. epidermidis strains, 50.8% were biofilm producers (A570 of > 0.1). There was a significant positive association between biofilm production and...
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