Records of patients from whom Staph. aureus had previously been recovered and tested for penicillin sensitivity were also studied. Nasal cultures were obtained from a number of healthy infants and ...

A large proportion of studies performed on CoNS species have been conducted almost exclusively on clinical strains, and the role of community-associated strains has been neglected. In fact, very ...

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are the most frequent contaminating bacteria; therefore, we aimed to investigate an indicator of CoNS to predict the increase in blood culture contamination ...