| molecular characterization of staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated from a teaching hospital in shanghai, china. | staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections, mostly associated with the use of medical devices in seriously ill or immunocompromised patients. currently, the clonal characteristics of s. epidermidis in the hospital environment in china are unknown; neither is it known why these sequence types are easily disseminated in the hospital setting. in this study, multilocus sequence typing (mlst) was employed for the clonal analysis of 80 s. epidermidis isolates collect ... | 2009 | 19273641 |