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. 1966 Jul;19(4):305–312. doi: 10.1136/jcp.19.4.305

Cultural characters of a newly recognized group of hospital staphylococci

M Patricia Jevons 1, Madeleine John 1, M T Parker 1
PMCID: PMC473271  PMID: 4224680

Abstract

Members of a newly recognized group of hospital staphylococci, which are believed to have arisen from 83A staphylococci by lysogenization, differ from them in several cultural characters. Some but not all of these characters appear to be determined by the carriage of phage.

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