Genetic characteristics and antimicrobial resistance of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from patients with catheter-related bloodstream infections and from colonized healthcare workers in a Belgian hospital

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cherifi, Soraya ^a   Byl, Baudouin ^b,c   Deplano, Ariane ^b   Nagant, Carole ^c   Nonhoff, Claire ^b   Denis, Olivier ^b,c   Hallin, Marie ^d  

^a BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d IRIS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Catheter related bloodstream infection; MLST; Molecular epidemiology; PFGE; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CELL ADHESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTEREMIA; BELGIUM; BIOFILMS; CARRIER STATE; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84903122378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-13-20     Document Type: Article

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