Coagulase-negative variants of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus strains isolated from hospital specimens.

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At the Department of Clinical Bacteriology of Medical University of Warsaw, S. aureus strains displaying negative reactions in the coagulase tube-test were isolated with a relatively high frequency from clinical specimens. As many as seventeen of such strains all from different patients were isolated during 1994 among MRSA strains. Despite coagulase negativity all strains were positive in tests for clumping...

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