Clinical Significance of a Single Staphylococcus lugdunensis-Positive Blood Culture
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Clinical Significance of a Single Staphylococcus lugdunensis-Positive Blood Culture
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) cause human infections that characteristically involve indwelling medical devices with an infection course that is usually indolent. In contrast, Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a species of CoNS that can cause infection of either a device or native tissue with an aggressive clinical course more reflective of infection due to Staphylococcus aureus (4, 5). T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0095-1137
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.02058-10