Genetic population structure of coagulase-negative staphylococci associated with carriage and disease in preterm infants.

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a leading cause of sepsis in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting. To evaluate the hypothesis that isolates of CoNS associated with disease belong to hypervirulent clones, as opposed to being drawn randomly from the neonatal unit carriage flora,...

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Main Authors: de Silva, G, Justice, A, Wilkinson, A, Buttery, J, Herbert, M, Day, N, Peacock, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2001