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Staphylococcus epidermidis Catheter-Related Infections in a Short-Bowel Patient. Persistence of a Single Strain Over a Two-Year Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andreas Voss ,
Willem J.G. Melchers ,
Diana Bijl ,
Jacomina A.A. Hoogkamp-Korstanje  and
Jacques F.G.M. Meis
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Abstract

We report the case of a patient with short-bowel syndrome, who lost multiple central venous devices over the course of 2 years while treating his catheter-related septicemia. Genotyping proved that all infectious episodes were caused by a single genotype of a Staphylococcus epidermidis strain, persisting over time

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 10 , October 1996 , pp. 669 - 671
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996 

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