Affiliation:
1. Laboratory Medicine Services, Changi General Hospital, Singapore
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Laboratory criteria were used to select coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from nonsterile body sites for further investigation. Fifty-seven percent of the study isolates were clinically significant, predominantly causing community-acquired soft tissue infections. There were species-related differences in virulence, with 91% of
Staphylococcus lugdunensis
isolates clinically significant compared with 11% of
S. haemolyticus
isolates.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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