Monitoring persistence of coagulase-negative staphylococci in a hematology department using phenotypic and genotypic strategies

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 660-667

  Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Kluijtmans, Jan ^a   Van Leeuwen, Willem ^a   Goessens, Wil ^a   Ter Averst, Ellen ^a   Wielenga, Jenne ^a   Verbrugh, Henri ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COAGULASE; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030256623     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141300     Document Type: Article

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