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Editorial
. 2017 Sep;12(12):1031-1033.
doi: 10.2217/fmb-2017-0143. Epub 2017 Jul 27.

Staphylococcus epidermidis: a major player in bacterial sepsis?

Michael Otto  1
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Editorial

Staphylococcus epidermidis: a major player in bacterial sepsis?

Michael Otto. Future Microbiol. 2017 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: Staphylococcus epidermidis; biofilm; coagulase-negative staphylococci; phenol-soluble modulins; sepsis; toxin.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The author kindly acknowledges funding from the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), US National Institutes of Health (NIH). The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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