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[New bacteriophages of Staphylococcus epidermidis: evaluation of their epidemiological value]. 1984

M Bes, and Y Brun, and J Fleurette

Coagulase-negative staphylococci, and in particular Staphylococcus epidermidis, are now being recognized as causing human infections with increasing frequency; the absence of an internationally accepted system of phage-typing for coagulase-negative staphylococci led us to isolate new phages. Fifty strains of S. epidermidis isolated from human infections were induced with mitomycin C: eight phages (41, 63, 118-II, 138, 245, 336, 392 and 550) were isolated. These phages were propagated on five different strains of S. epidermidis. Their phages were propagated on five different strains of S. epidermidis. Their lytic activity as studied on 561 strains. Phages 336, 392 and 550 had a different host-range and different propagative strains; they typed 93% of the strains susceptible to the 8 phages. The other phages had an activity similar to that of phage 336. Twenty-one per cent of non-epidemic strains were susceptible to at least one of the three phages. The reproducibility, specificity and discriminatory power of these phages suggest they may be a useful addition to previously recognized phages.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D005069	Evaluation Studies as Topic	Works about studies that determine the effectiveness or value of processes, personnel, and equipment, or the material on conducting such studies.	Critique,Evaluation Indexes,Evaluation Methodology,Evaluation Report,Evaluation Research,Methodology, Evaluation,Pre-Post Tests,Qualitative Evaluation,Quantitative Evaluation,Theoretical Effectiveness,Use-Effectiveness,Critiques,Effectiveness, Theoretical,Evaluation Methodologies,Evaluation Reports,Evaluation, Qualitative,Evaluation, Quantitative,Evaluations, Qualitative,Evaluations, Quantitative,Indexes, Evaluation,Methodologies, Evaluation,Pre Post Tests,Pre-Post Test,Qualitative Evaluations,Quantitative Evaluations,Report, Evaluation,Reports, Evaluation,Research, Evaluation,Test, Pre-Post,Tests, Pre-Post,Use Effectiveness
D001434	Bacteriophage Typing	A technique of bacterial typing which differentiates between bacteria or strains of bacteria by their susceptibility to one or more bacteriophages.	Phage Typing,Typing, Bacteriophage,Typing, Phage
D013204	Staphylococcus Phages	Viruses whose host is Staphylococcus.	Staphylococcal Phages,Staphylococcal Bacteriophage,Staphylococcal Bacteriophages,Staphylococcus Phage,Bacteriophage, Staphylococcal,Bacteriophages, Staphylococcal,Phage, Staphylococcal,Phage, Staphylococcus,Phages, Staphylococcal,Phages, Staphylococcus,Staphylococcal Phage
D013212	Staphylococcus epidermidis	A species of STAPHYLOCOCCUS that is a spherical, non-motile, gram-positive, chemoorganotrophic, facultative anaerobe. Mainly found on the skin and mucous membrane of warm-blooded animals, it can be primary pathogen or secondary invader.