Article
Clonal expansion of Staphylococcus epidermidis strains causing Hickman catheter-related infections in a hemato-oncologic department.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1998
Nouwen J L, van Belkum A, de Marie S, Sluijs J, Wielenga J J, Kluytmans J A, Verbrugh H A
Abstract excerpt
The detailed analysis of 411 strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) obtained from 40 neutropenic hemato-oncologic patients (61 Hickman catheter episodes) on intensive chemotherapy is described. By random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, a total of 88 different genotyp...
Topics
- Air Microbiology
- Antibiotic Prophylaxis
- Bacteriological Techniques
- Catheterization, Central Venous
- Catheters, Indwelling
- Ciprofloxacin
- Fluconazole
- Genotype
- Hematologic Neoplasms
- Humans
- Mycoses
- Neutropenia
- Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
- Restriction Mapping