Slime-producing properties of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 689-694

  Mulder, J G ^a,b   Degener, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of Groningen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Slime production

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; CONGO RED; CRYSTAL VIOLET; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; SUCROSE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRYPAN BLUE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIME; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0032406379     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00653.x     Document Type: Article

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