Use of quantitative antibiogram analysis to determine the clonality of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species from blood culture

Autor: D.A. Bruckner, M. Cohen, L.E. Brankovic, J.A. Labarca, David A. Pegues, B.L. Bearson
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 10(2)
ISSN: 1198-743X
Popis: Two phenotypic methods, quantitative antibiogram analysis and colony morphology, were compared to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for distinguishing the clonality of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CNS) species. The results of these three methods were correlated with the patients' clinical findings for 23 episodes in which CNS species were isolated from two blood culture bottles within a 24-h period. Quantitative antibiogram and colony morphology at 24 h correlated with PFGE typing in 21 (91%) and 20 (87%) episodes, respectively. All episodes associated with CNS strains with identical PFGE patterns had quantitative antibiogram similarity coefficients
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