High Prevalence of Heterogeneously Glycopeptide-Intermediate Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Sternal Wounds

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Jul 22;60(8):5097-8. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00217-16. Print 2016 Aug.

Authors

Björn Berglund¹, Carina Claesson², Lennart E Nilsson³, Håkan Hanberger³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden bjorn.berglund@liu.se.
² Department of Clinical Microbiology and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / adverse effects
Coagulase / genetics
Drug Resistance, Microbial*
Genotype
Glycopeptides / pharmacology*
Humans
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Phenotype
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Staphylococcal Infections / drug therapy
Staphylococcal Infections / epidemiology*
Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology
Staphylococcus / drug effects
Staphylococcus / genetics
Staphylococcus / isolation & purification*
Sternum / injuries
Sternum / microbiology
Surgical Wound Infection / drug therapy
Surgical Wound Infection / epidemiology*
Surgical Wound Infection / microbiology
Sweden / epidemiology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Coagulase
Glycopeptides