Modification of the Congo red agar method to detect biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-239

  Kaiser, Thaís Dias Lemos ^a   Pereira, Eliezer Menezes ^b   dos Santos, Kátia Regina Netto ^c   Maciel, Ethel Leonor Noia ^a   Schuenck, Ricardo Pinto ^a   Nunes, Ana Paula Ferreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Congo red agar; IcaAB gene; S. epidermidis; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

CONGO RED; GLUCOSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ICAAB GENE; INOCULATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; CONGO RED; CULTURE MEDIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SUCROSE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84873710305     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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