[epidemiological profile of methicillin resistant staphylococcus epidermidis with diminished sensitivity to teicoplanin and isolated from neutropenic patients at the national center of bone marrow transplantation in tunis]. | fifty-seven methicillin resistant s. epidermidis with decreased susceptibility to teicoplanin were obtained from 14 neutropenic patients on a period of 11 months (19 february-31 december 1998) from essentially blood culture (30 strains) and orl specimens (21 strains). the mic90 of methicillin, gentamicin, ofloxacin and telcoplanin were respectively 1024, 1024, 512 and 32 mg/l. we applied pulsed field gel electrophoresis (pfge) after smal digestion to 21 isolates choosed between eight patients wi ... | 2001 | 11692751 |