Molecular Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Blood Isolates Shows Lack of Polyclonal Bacteremia
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 41 (4) , 1717-9
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.41.4.1717-1719.2003
Abstract
Molecular analysis of the first blood culture from 41 patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and 20 bacteremia-associated catheter tip isolates revealed indistinguishable blood colonies in 39 patients (95.1%) and two related variants in two patients (4.9%). Polyclonal bacteremia was not observed in any patient, including four with genetic diversity in the catheter tip isolate.Keywords
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