Clinical and microbiological profile of persistent coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteraemia in neonates

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1684-1690

  Dimitriou, G ^a   Fouzas, S ^a   Giormezis, N ^b   Giannakopoulos, I ^a   Tzifas, S ^a   Foka, A ^b   Anastassiou, D E ^b   Spiliopoulou, I ^b   Mantagos, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biofilm production; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Late onset sepsis; Neonates

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 80054078879     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03489.x     Document Type: Article

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