| is hospital-acquired intravascular catheter-related sepsis associated with outbreak strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci? | macrorestriction fragment profile analysis by pulsed field gel electrophoresis was used to type strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci (cns) isolated from 30 patients with catheter-related sepsis at the university hospital birmingham nhs trust, uk. twenty-three infections were hospital-acquired. a total of 56 cns were isolated from the patients and identified by api as staphylococcus epidermidis (54), staphylococcus lugdunensis (1) and staphylococcus hominis (1). the micro-organisms were fu ... | 2000 | 11049706 |