Outbreak of Staphylococcus schleiferi Wound Infections: Strain Characterization by Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis, PCR Ribotyping, Conventional Ribotyping, and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis

Within a 1-year period, six surgical-site infections (SSI) caused by Staphylococcus schleiferi were observed in the department of cardiac surgery of Ignatius Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands. Since outbreaks caused by this species of coagulase-negative staphylococci have not been described before, a...

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Main Authors: Kluytmans, Jan, Berg, Hans, Steegh, Paul, Vandenesch, François, Etienne, Jerome, van Belkum, Alex
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 1998
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Epidemiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC105016/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9665994
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