dc.creator | Foka, A. | en |
dc.creator | Chini, V. | en |
dc.creator | Petinaki, E. | en |
dc.creator | Kolonitsiou, F. | en |
dc.creator | Anastassiou, E. D. | en |
dc.creator | Dimitracopoulos, G. | en |
dc.creator | Spiliopoulou, I. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-23T10:26:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-23T10:26:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier | 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01565.x | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1198-743X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/27507 | |
dc.description.abstract | Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (MR-CNS) (n = 132), isolated from pre-term neonates, were analysed to determine their antibiotic resistance patterns, clonal distribution, biofilm production and the presence of the ica operon. All MR-CNS were multiresistant, and 89% produced slime. A major clone was identified (77 isolates) among 115 Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates. Ten of 16 Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolates also belonged to a single clone. Most (80%) slime-positive isolates possessed all the ica genes tested, while the remaining 23 (20%) had a variety of gene combinations. The entire ica cluster was detected in three of 15 slime-negative isolates. One major and two minor slime-positive, multiresistant MR-CNS clones had disseminated among hospitalised pre-term neonates. | en |
dc.source.uri | <Go to ISI>://WOS:000242790400014 | |
dc.subject | coagulase-negative staphylococci | en |
dc.subject | epidemiology | en |
dc.subject | ica gene cluster | en |
dc.subject | neonates | en |
dc.subject | slime production | en |
dc.subject | typing | en |
dc.subject | MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY | en |
dc.subject | EPIDERMIDIS | en |
dc.subject | POLYSACCHARIDE | en |
dc.subject | DISEASE | en |
dc.subject | Infectious Diseases | en |
dc.subject | Microbiology | en |
dc.title | Clonality of slime-producing methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci disseminated in the neonatal intensive care unit of a university hospital | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |