Clonality of slime-producing methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci disseminated in the neonatal intensive care unit of a university hospital

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1230-1233

  Foka, A ^a   Chini, V ^a   Petinaki, E ^b   Kolonitsiou, F ^a   Anastassiou, E D ^a   Dimitracopoulos, G ^a   Spiliopoulou, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; Epidemiology; Ica gene cluster; Neonates; Slime production; Typing

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; NETILMICIN; OXACILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; CLONAL VARIATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 33751081017     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01565.x     Document Type: Article

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