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Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Sternal Wound Infections After Open Heart Operations  Sherif B Mossad, MD, Janet M Serkey, RN, JD, David L Longworth,

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1 Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Sternal Wound Infections After Open Heart Operations 
Sherif B Mossad, MD, Janet M Serkey, RN, JD, David L Longworth, MD, Delos M Cosgrove, MD, Steven M Gordon, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages (February 1997) DOI: /S (96)00834-X

2 Fig. 1 Emergence of coagulase negative staphylococcus (CNS) as a cause of sternal wound infection (SWI) after 22,180 median sternotomy procedures at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation; 1988–1994. (SWI = sternal wound infections.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (96)00834-X)

3 Fig. 2 Organisms causing 436 sternal wound infections after 22,180 median sternotomy procedures at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; 1988–1994. (CNS = coagulase-negative staphylococci.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (96)00834-X)

4 Fig. 3 Susceptibility pattern of coagulase-negative staphylococci to tested antibiotics. All coagulase-negative staphylococci isolates were tested; refer to Table 1 for the exact number of isolates identified each year. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (96)00834-X)


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