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ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2016

Diphtheroids-Important Nosocomial Pathogens.

Reshmi Chandran, Dinju Raj Puthukkichal, Ethel Suman, Shashidhar Kotian Mangalore

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Article in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Reshmi ChandranEx Postgraduate Student, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Mangalore, Karnataka, India .
Dinju Raj PuthukkichalEx Postgraduate Student, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Mangalore, Karnataka, India .
Ethel SumanAssociate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Mangalore, Karnataka, India .
Shashidhar Kotian MangaloreSelection Grade Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Mangalore, Karnataka, India .

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionDiphtheroids are defined as aerobic, non-sporulating, pleomorphic Gram-positive bacilli which are more uniformly stained than

aimTo identify the various species of diphtheroids isolated as pure growth from clinical specimens whose Gram's smear revealed numerous inflammatory cells with Gram positive bacilli and had clinical evidence. MATERIALS AND

methodsA total of 100 isolates of Gram-positive bacilli from 16,242 clinical samples received in the Microbiology Department of Kasturba Medical College were considered for this study from Dec 2013-Dec 2014. Gram-positive bacilli which were seen in the smear along with pus cells, isolated as pure growth and reported as "

resultsVarious species of diphtheroids were isolated from different clinical specimens.

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