Significance of slime as virulence factor in coagulase-negative Staphylococcus peritonitis in CAPD

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-193

  da Cunha, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza ^a   Caramori, Jacqueline Costa Teixeira ^a   Fioravante, Ana Maria ^a   Batalha, Jackson Eliezer Neves ^a   Montelli, Augusto Cezar ^a   Barreti, Pasqual ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; OXACILLIN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS FLUID; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

EID: 1942534707     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089686080402400212     Document Type: Article

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