Molecular characterization and LD50 identify virulent isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis from adult sepsis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 75-80

  Herndona, Betty L ^a   Bialkowska Hobrzanska, Hanna ^b   Dall, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD CULTURE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LD 50; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; APACHE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033955341     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00114-5     Document Type: Article

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