Open AccessThe significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteremia in a low resource setting
Author(s) -
Zaidah Abdul Rahman,
Siti Hawa Hamzah,
Siti Asma Hassan,
Sabariah Osman,
Siti Suraiya Md Noor
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.2535
Subject(s) - cons , coagulase , bacteremia , antibiotics , staphylococcus epidermidis , blood culture , staphylococcus , microbiology and biotechnology , bloodstream infection , biology , clinical significance , antibiogram , medicine , antibiotic resistance , staphylococcus aureus , bacteria , computer science , genetics , programming language
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a group of micro-organisms that are increasingly implicated as a cause of significant infection and the leading cause of bloodstream infection (BSI). One important predictor of true BSI is the isolation of CoNS from multiple blood cultures, presuming that the isolates represent the same species. Thus the objective of this study was to determine the significance of repeated CoNS isolated from blood cultures.
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