Infections cutanées dues à Staphylococcus lugdunensis
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Staphylococcus lugdunensis infections: high frequency of inguinal area carriage.
Following a change in surgical practice, we noted that the rate at which Staphylococcus lugdunensis was isolated from samples from the plastic surgery unit of our hospital increased considerably. We investigated the sources of these S. lugdunensis strains, and we found that in the case of drain colonization or surgical site infection, the strain was more likely to have come from the patient's s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0399-077X
DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2018.04.105