Characterization of coagulase-negative staphylococci by primer-specific polymerase chain reaction and ribotyping

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-32

  Gaszewska Mastalarz, Anna ^a   Bartoszewicz Potyrała, Marzena ^a   Przondo Mordarska, Anna ^a   Mordarski, Marian ^a   Zakrzewska Czerwińska, Jolanta ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; Primer specific PCR; Ribotyping; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0031985144     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00330.x     Document Type: Article

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