Biofilm and the role of the ica operon and aap in Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates causing neurosurgical meningitis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 719-722

  Stevens, N T ^a   Tharmabala, M ^a   Dillane, T ^a   Greene, C M ^a   O'Gara, J P ^b   Humphreys, H ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 45249099552     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02012.x     Document Type: Article

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