Bloodstream infections caused by small-colony variants of coagulase- negative staphylococci following pacemaker implantation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 932-934

  Von Eiff, Christof ^a,b,c,d,e   Vaudaux, Pierre ^a,b,c,d,e   Kahl, Barbara C ^a,b,c,d,e   Lew, Daniel ^a,b,c,d,e   Emler, Stefan ^a,b,c,d,e   Schmidt, Andrej ^a,b,c,d,e   Peters, Georg ^a,b,c,d,e   Proctor, Richard A ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; HEMIN; OXACILLIN; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0033511770     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520462     Document Type: Article

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