▪ Abstract Biofilms can be defined as communities of microorganisms attached to a surface. It
is clear that microorganisms undergo profound changes during their transition from …

Coagulase-negative staphylococci have long been regarded as apathogenic but their
important role as pathogens and their increasing incidence have been recognized and …

Nosocomial infections (NIs) now concern 5 to 15% of hospitalized patients and can lead to
complications in 25 to 33% of those patients admitted to ICUs. The most common causes are …

The coagulase-negative staphylococci and, in particular, Staphylococcus epidermidis, have
emerged as major nosocomial pathogens associated with infections of implanted medical …

Twenty percent of very-low-birth-weight (< 1500 g) preterm infants experience a serious
systemic infection, and despite advances in neonatal intensive care and antimicrobials …

Neonates, especially those born prematurely, are at high risk of morbidity and mortality from
sepsis. Multiple factors, including prematurity, invasive life‐saving medical interventions …

Objective: To determine the cause and mode of transmission of a cluster of infections due to
Enterobacter cloacae. Design and Setting: Retrospective cohort study in a neonatal …

OBJECTIVES. Hand hygiene promotion interventions rarely result in sustained
improvement, and an assessment of their impact on individual infection risk has been …

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 …

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a major cause of sepsis in the neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU). We evaluated the hypothesis that the ica operon and biofilm …