Staphylococcus epidermidis is a pathogen emerging worldwide as a leading cause of health
care-associated infections. A standardized high-resolution typing method to document …

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a significant cause of nosocomial disease. However, the
taxonomy of this pathogen, particularly at subspecies level, is unclear. A multilocus …

Objectives The objectives of this study were:(i) to determine the species diversity of CoNS
isolated from bloodstream infections collected during a national surveillance study; and (ii) …

Despite its importance as a human pathogen, information on population structure and global
epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis is scarce and the relative importance of the …

The aim of the study was to investigate the molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus
epidermidis in Iranian hospitals and to compare the genotypes with a previously …

Purpose. Staphylococcus epidermidis colonies often display several morphologies and
antimicrobial susceptibility patterns when cultured from device-related infections, and may …

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a ubiquitous colonizer of human skin and a common cause of
medical device-associated infections. The extent to which the population genetic structure of …

Staphylococcus epidermidis is an important nosocomial pathogen, but little is known of its
epidemiology. Accurate, reproducible typing systems would greatly improve epidemiologic …

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a human commensal and pathogen worldwide distributed. In
this work, we surveyed for multi-resistant S. epidermidis strains in eight years at a children …

Fast and reliable genotyping methods allowing real-time epidemiology would be
instrumental to discriminate Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates, in order to evaluate …