Detection of slime production by means of an optimised Congo red agar plate test based on a colourimetric scale in Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates genotyped for ica locus
- 5 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Biomaterials
- Vol. 23 (21), 4233-4239
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0142-9612(02)00171-0
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