Genotypic and phenotypic properties of coagulase-negative staphylococci causing dialysis catheter-related sepsis

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 272-278

  Spare, M K ^a   Tebbs, S E ^a   Lang, S ^b   Lambert, P A ^b   Worthington, T ^a   Lipkin, G W ^a   Elliott, Tom S J ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; Genotyping; Phenotyping; Renal dialysis

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; ESTERASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; BACTERIAL DNA; COAGULASE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CATHETER; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; AGED; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PHENOTYPE; SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COAGULASE; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESTERASES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LIPASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PHENOTYPE; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

EID: 0142150296     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(03)00154-3     Document Type: Article

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